I do live arround here, Palo Alto to be precise. San Jose is 40 miles from San Francisco but it's all one continuous city. Did you check the population numbers? 1.5 Million for each. That means they included a lot of those little burgs. (for those who don't know, SF and SJ only have populations if 600k and 700k respectively)
San Francisco and San Jose are part of the same metro area. Further, the really monsterous clusters are not within the city limits of either. PAIX, MAE*West, Exodus, PB*NAP, Frontier,... NONE of these are actually in San Francisco or San Jose. But they're closer to San Jose than San Francisco. San Francisco is, relatively speaking, not a high tech place. No major peering points, no major co-lo facilities. Limited DSL. No cable modems. I think they gerrymandered the Peninsula onto the San Francisco ledger just so they could put the cute cable car photo on the page.
MiX is too buggy. It won't even run Netscape without crashing.
Actually, almost all the NT X servers are buggy. I evaled more than a dozen. I found exactly *2* that actually worked well. Even the frequently recomended Exceed has font and refresh problems.
The once that worked were: Xwin-32 and Reflection X. Xwin-32 is $200, Reflection X is $300. Both prices are for 10 or more.
Damn annoying. What ever happened to exploring new ideas? What every happened to the idea of clearing the slate and starting fresh with the best ideas available? This is one of the reasons I can't get excited about Linux. Dispite all the open source hoopla, at it's heart, it's still old cruft. It only looks good because it's better old cruft than the other guy's old cruft.
BeOS is a good start but the architects were not up on recent development in OS research, and it shows. (When is a useable operating system going to have an object oriented file system? That idea has got to be 10 years old by now)
This Merill Lynch situation is very common in electronic design. A Unix box for the important stuff and a PC for office apps. There is also lingering desire to consolidate everything on one machine.
IMHO, the right way to do this is to consolidate is to run the office apps on the Unix box. They exist. Maybe the're not as good/mature as the Windows office apps. But that's not a big deal because the engineer doesn't need these tools all that badly anyway.
Unfortunately, that's rare. Instead, large companies try the oposite. They run immature design tools on NT.
I don't know how the lawyers define a parody but, personally, I don't see how Dilbert Hole had much of a case. Was Dilbert Hole makeing fun of some serious aspect of the Dilbert universe? Not that I could see. Parodies generally serve to highlight absurdities in the assumptions of the subject being parodied. But Dilbert has few assumptions and Dilbert Hole didn't address any of them. As far as I could see, it's just a different comic that uses Dilbert characters and happens to be offensive.
That's what it's not the first of. Ok so it's the first extrasolar planet. And it's not the first extrasolar multi-planet system. It is something. The neutron star systems don't tell us much about "normal" planetary formation so it's more significant than it sounds.
There's more than one pulsar system. PSR1829-10 was retracted. PSR1257+12 most definately was not and is considdered confirmed with multiple planets. (as much as any can be considdered confirmed. No extrasolar planets have been directly imaged) See http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exo plnt.htm
No. *Most* of the extra solar planetary systems have had multiple members. Even the first, the weird system arround a neutron star had multiple planets.
3) First with hot Jovians? No. I remember reading about those years ago.
4) First to be directly observed? No. No mention of direct observation. If they had, there would be some clue as to how a jovian mass planet survives that close to a star.
5) First planetary system arround a sun like star?
Possible. Vega is a planetary system still being formed. The neutron star system is obviously nothing like ours. I don't recall the rest.
...time to go check out sci.space.science,sci.astro, and alt.sci.planetary for some real information.
It looks like they are bandpass filtering the output. If you notice the demonstrations were in the 100's of Mhz into the low GHz range. It also means that what they are transmitting isn't truly a pulse.
I find the technique a bit distressing: More data bandwidth by consumeing more RF bandwidth including bands that are reserved or already in use. I hope they can control the output enough that Radio Astronomy isn't screwed up.
I also find it amusing that there seems to be inconsistancy about how difficult the technique is to use. On one hand they say it is real simple and will be very cheap. On the other hand, they say SiGe is what makes it practical. It's so easy we have to use a bleading edge process to make it work. Er, yeah.
It's OK for POP, though it's a bit cumbersome. For IMAP though, it just sucks. The whole point of IMAP is that you keep your mail stays on the servers, accessible from everywhere. Fetchmail can't support that kind of environment.
You may want to look at Crossfire. Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical adventure game that has a java client. See http://www.bolthole.com/jcrossclient/
The big problem with HR departments is that they don't really know what it takes to do the job. They have to work with what the hiring manager gave them and try to match job specs with resumes. If your background is very conventional (the right X years working in the right area for a conventional employeer) they do OK. But if you are trying to do something unusual, they can be your worst enemy. Job titles that don't match, relevent projects not done for an employeer, career changes: all of these things give HR fits and you lose. In those cases you must get to the hiring manager directly. HR will just lose your resume.
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I do live arround here, Palo Alto to be precise.
San Jose is 40 miles from San Francisco but it's all one continuous city. Did you check the population numbers? 1.5 Million for each. That means they included a lot of those little burgs.
(for those who don't know, SF and SJ only have populations if 600k and 700k respectively)
San Francisco and San Jose are part of the same metro area. Further, the really monsterous clusters are not within the city limits of either.
PAIX, MAE*West, Exodus, PB*NAP, Frontier,...
NONE of these are actually in San Francisco or San Jose. But they're closer to San Jose than San Francisco. San Francisco is, relatively speaking, not a high tech place. No major peering points, no major co-lo facilities. Limited DSL. No cable modems. I think they gerrymandered the Peninsula onto the San Francisco ledger just so they could put the cute cable car photo on the page.
MiX is too buggy. It won't even run Netscape without crashing.
Actually, almost all the NT X servers are buggy. I evaled more than a dozen. I found exactly *2* that actually worked well. Even the frequently recomended Exceed has font and refresh problems.
The once that worked were: Xwin-32 and Reflection X. Xwin-32 is $200, Reflection X is $300. Both prices are for 10 or more.
Damn annoying. What ever happened to exploring new ideas? What every happened to the idea of clearing the slate and starting fresh with the best ideas available? This is one of the reasons I can't get excited about Linux. Dispite all the open source hoopla, at it's heart, it's still old cruft. It only looks good because it's better old cruft than the other guy's old cruft.
BeOS is a good start but the architects were not up on recent development in OS research, and it shows. (When is a useable operating system going to have an object oriented file system? That idea has got to be 10 years old by now)
Oh well. I guess I miss the 80's.
This Merill Lynch situation is very common in electronic design. A Unix box for the important stuff and a PC for office apps. There is also lingering desire to consolidate everything on one machine.
IMHO, the right way to do this is to consolidate is to run the office apps on the Unix box. They exist. Maybe the're not as good/mature as the Windows office apps. But that's not a big deal because the engineer doesn't need these tools all that badly anyway.
Unfortunately, that's rare. Instead, large companies try the oposite. They run immature design tools on NT.
I don't know how the lawyers define a parody but, personally, I don't see how Dilbert Hole had much of a case. Was Dilbert Hole makeing fun of some serious aspect of the Dilbert universe? Not that I could see. Parodies generally serve to highlight absurdities in the assumptions of the subject being parodied. But Dilbert has few assumptions and Dilbert Hole didn't address any of them. As far as I could see, it's just a different comic that uses Dilbert characters and happens to be offensive.
That's what it's not the first of. Ok so it's the first extrasolar planet. And it's not the first extrasolar multi-planet system. It is something. The neutron star systems don't tell us much about "normal" planetary formation so it's more significant than it sounds.
The press just got it wrong. What else is new?
There's more than one pulsar system. PSR1829-10 was retracted. PSR1257+12 most definately was not and is considdered confirmed with multiple planets. (as much as any can be considdered confirmed. No extrasolar planets have been directly imaged)
See http://www.public.asu.edu/~sciref/exo plnt.htm
1) first extra solar planets? Hardly.
2) first extra solar multi planet system?
No. *Most* of the extra solar planetary systems have had multiple members. Even the first, the weird system arround a neutron star had multiple planets.
3) First with hot Jovians? No. I remember reading about those years ago.
4) First to be directly observed? No. No mention of direct observation. If they had, there would be some clue as to how a jovian mass planet survives that close to a star.
5) First planetary system arround a sun like star?
Possible. Vega is a planetary system still being formed. The neutron star system is obviously nothing like ours. I don't recall the rest.
...time to go check out sci.space.science,sci.astro, and alt.sci.planetary for some real information.
It looks like they are bandpass filtering the output. If you notice the demonstrations were in the 100's of Mhz into the low GHz range. It also means that what they are transmitting isn't truly a pulse.
I find the technique a bit distressing: More data bandwidth by consumeing more RF bandwidth including bands that are reserved or already in use. I hope they can control the output enough that Radio Astronomy isn't screwed up.
I also find it amusing that there seems to be inconsistancy about how difficult the technique is to use. On one hand they say it is real simple and will be very cheap. On the other hand, they say SiGe is what makes it practical. It's so easy we have to use a bleading edge process to make it work. Er, yeah.
It's OK for POP, though it's a bit cumbersome. For IMAP though, it just sucks. The whole point of IMAP is that you keep your mail stays on the servers, accessible from everywhere. Fetchmail can't support that kind of environment.
You may want to look at Crossfire. Crossfire is a multiplayer graphical adventure game that has a java client. See http://www.bolthole.com/jcrossclient/
The big problem with HR departments is that they don't really know what it takes to do the job. They have to work with what the hiring manager gave them and try to match job specs with resumes.
If your background is very conventional (the right X years working in the right area for a conventional employeer) they do OK. But if you are trying to do something unusual, they can be your worst enemy. Job titles that don't match, relevent projects not done for an employeer, career changes: all of these things give HR fits and you lose. In those cases you must get to the hiring manager directly. HR will just lose your resume.
While I agree that there isn't any better leverage than another offer, this isn't always practical. Offers are usually only on the table for a week. If you are looking for something *good* rather than reasonable and available quickly then your search can take much longer than that. If you are selective on non-monetary issues you may find that there is only one offer on the table at a time.