Well, with WebKit up the proverbial creek these days, a new rendering engine would make sense.
You lost me here. If you read the reaction by everyone except Google, all committers are fucking thrilled Google forked. They can now have a unified JSC and move forward instead of wasting countless personnel hours supporting abstractions all because Google wanted a separate Javscript Engine. Don't let the door hit you in the ass their Google, on the way out. If I want to test out Chrome/Chromium I know where to find you.
Minimum wage in 1982 was not $4/hr. It was around $3.25/hr. You were making above minimum wage. I graduated high school in 1987. I finished working at a local radio station at $3.35/hr and no it wasn't the luxury of getting paid to advance my knowledge of programming languages. It was soliciting the general public to determine how the radio station would best serve it's listening audience by pretending to be an impartial service unaffiliated to the station I was working for, all to boost their market share. In short, we were lying and violating FCC rules while getting paid shit to do it.
After doing a Mechanical Engineering B.S. at WSU and later a CS bachelor's my first job was a 9 week contract at NeXT Software Inc for $19/hr. The year is 1996, I'm way overly educated and in the bay area it's a shit wage. God has not a fucking thing to do with being on Earth and Greed has everything to do with cluster bombing the economy into a global shit storm. You got way overpaid in 1998 at $140k plus stock options. I know a ton of folks like you that continue to get way overpaid creating nothing and getting paid a shitload for it. One clue, you're reading resumes. Top Engineers aren't reading resumes, they are in R&D creating projects to help drive a company forward to pay for managers making $140k/year plus benefits to micromanage their staff, none of which wanted the job so you as a fellow engineer stepped up to take it.
Reality: 99% of IT is a me too world which follows and never leads, and is filled with overly paid data entry personnel who with engineering, physics and other hard science degrees slowly move into positions that they do for 20 years and then if they are lucky retire and never look back. Apple, and a handful of other companies drive the entire industry vision which kickstarts the entire Semiconductor industry to create products that these visionaries foresee the world will eventually need. Whether it is CAD, CGI, Applied Engineering, Gaming, you name it, the ones with the imagination challenge those with the scientific pragmatism what is or is not possible to make the impossible. Without them, the Semiconductor industry is stagnant and full of 30 year veterans bored to death but afraid to retire due to the loss of salary and too much free time. They can problem solve like nobody's business, but they sure as hell can't seem to figure out what problems to solve without those creative thinkers. The industry constantly turns to the youth knowing they have no experience and thus too stupid to realize all their bright ideas will be flushed but with a few exceptions, and those most often by pure chance end of succeeding with you most likely never enjoying the spoils of said idea(s).
It's the reason Bushnell talks about some of the greatest ideas come from people who look at the IT Industry and this massive system of me toos cloning and doing repetitive work like drones as wrong, and who carve their own paths to break the monotony by doing the next big idea(s).
Whether it happens to be a Ph.D. or a dude newly released from prison, great ideas come around rarely and when they do don't be afraid to grab onto them and nuture them with the mind that espoused the idea(s) first. If you don't, you'll most likely fuck it up and it'll never become the next insanely great product and/or service(s).
My 22 year since deceased Grandfather and former Vice President of West Coast Credit for Intermediate Credit Federal Bank for the USDA told me when I was young,
``Man will always place a high value of his self worth to society no matter the job, experience or skills. None of this I have ever understood as his worth never matches his self appraisal.''
I think he was conservative in that observation, and far too kind.
But sure as hell doesn't mean ZFS like the twit who titled this thread as reaching an important 0.61 milestone. I'll pass on Linux with ZFS. I'll use FreeBSD where it is mature.
Oil and gas?! How about Solar? Wind? GeoThermal? LFTR/Thorium? Why are we blowing computer power on dying industries!?
Well, it seems like a waste of computing power to use it to find those things. I mean, we already know where the sun is. We already know where it's windy.
Use that power to simulate solar energy collection systems for optimal designs, to modeling material science simulations to develop more efficient capture systems, to producing potential scenarios for climate change expansion and where to best target a means to reversing it, etc.
Do not cheer this. There is nothing good about this. It is merely less evil than using corn as a fuel feedstock.
Correct and since bio algae is already certified at all levels and WSU/UoW received > $140 million in recent DoE money to expand moreso with the WSU research [jointly with Oregon State and others]: Bio Algae is here.
http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/bsel/pnnl.html
Impacts
The collective goal at BSEL is to move science to industrial processes in a manner that improves energy security, reduces petroleum imports and decreases the impact of fuels on the environment. PNNL currently has approximately 60 issued and pending patents in the area of biobased processing (30 issued US patents, 19 issued in the last six years). These have resulted in ten commercial licenses and license options. This work has also resulted in one R&D 100 Award Presidential Green Chemistry Award, and provided the basis for creation of a new company.
The advances at WSU, UoW, Oregon State and all the Public/Private patent pending research is probably one reason for this grant to do something alternative--they have to as the other areas are mature and highly patented.
Agreed on all points about AMD. Their HSA initiative and the direction of GSN with FX and GPGPU designs, to their APU tieing them together, while embracing ARM 64 hybrids makes their future enormous.
If you're doing numerics, what the fuck (if you'll pardon my French) are you doing buying Apple? I'm working on two-phase Navier-Stokes solvers myself, and I just bought a new rig consisting of 3 boxes each with a Intel Core i7 @ 3.7 GHz, 12 GB RAM, an SSD drive and a big-ass cooling system. In total that cost less than the Mac Pro with a single Core i7 @ 3.3 GHz listed in that article.You're paying 3x more than you should, and you get what extra? A shiny case? Puh-lease.
Mac Pro: 64GB of ECC RAM. Yes a kick ass infrastructure throughout the entire experience. Don't get me wrong, just building a Corsair 650D, Vishera FXX-8350, 32GB of 1866 DDR3, 256 SSD, Twin 2 TB Black WD Drives, waiting on the 8000 series AMD GPGPUs for Crossfire, AX850 Corsair Power Supply, Corsair H110 Water Cooloer and splitting time between Debian and FreeBSD I'm already invested heavily to the tune of $2300-$2500 and no OS X Development. Running LLVM/Clang with OpenCL and the R600 stack soon to be ready for LLVM/Clang 3.3 as a Mechanical Engineer I look forward to seeing how fucking sweet this beast shits all over your set up.
Then again, Apple's OS X OpenCL and GCD throughout is so advanced I know pairing it up with a Mac Pro and whatever the hell Apple comes out with with the same code via LLVM/Clang/LLDB would allow me with the AMD 7000 series now supported to really start eating up those numerical analysis needs, not to mention FEA/CFD. I tell you what: Go buy both rigs and learn Cocoa Dev and what both systems will offer. As soon as FreeBSD 10 is out with binary graphics drivers from AMD I will not even waste my time on Linux and I'll get ZFS to boot.
The Dev Tools on OS X are robust, far more mature than Linux irregardless of the BS about Qt 5.x and of course with WebGL/WebCL and WebKit 2.x nightly on either set up I have lots of options. Then with LLVM/Clang 3.3 comes the addition of OpenMP amongst other new and robust tools that the GCC crowd knows is pushing them to the limit. I can't fucking stand C++ and C/ObjC gives me the best of both worlds. I've still got FORTRAN to boot on both systems as well.
Most Engineers have multiple high-end systems to do their work. You pissing about spending for the Mac tells me you haven't owned the Mac Pro, used OS X extensively and either choose or cannot choose to have both configurations for your needs.
The beauty of the upcoming Mac Pro is the price point drops and that will piss off the competition.
When you're incorporated doing work you also write down these purchases.
I just cannot embrace the mess C++ became anymore. Life is too short to learn C++. Basically I'm using "C with classes" today, without STL, Boost or any of these aberrations.
We in the NeXT world have been using C with Smalltalk like classes for a long time.
It's a crock of crap that the market isn't lucrative enough. They got beat out and when people started asking them how come not them, this is their answer.
One good reason to purchase a mac with Mountain Lion is to be authorized to develop for iOS, or to do any console logging in Safari post iOS 6. In fact, I have one sitting in the corner of my office for exactly that purpose. It runs a little utility which allows us to upload binaries (developed on a platform of our choosing) to the app store, and runs a console logger for safari. Mountain Lion is the only platform authorized to do those two tasks, and so you are pretty much forced to have it if you want to develop for iOS. That god damn mac is the only piece of technology I have ever used that makes me rage with every part of my being.
Rage on. You must be quite system illiterate if OS X frustrates you.
With all the growth of OS X, LLVM/Clang and a slew of corporations moving to LLVM/Clang I'm seeing FreeBSD getting a lot of love. With version 10, a lot of infrastructure for both FreeBSD proper and Debian FreeBSD is making Linux less and less attractive.
Unless you go to a decent school where CS IS engineering. Including the same math and physics requirements. Then when you fail out of engineering, you end up in business school.
CS is not FUCKING ENGINEERING. It never will be. It is called Computer Science for a reason. Most ME/EE graduates I knew had FORTRAN, C and C++ for Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics and more. Not a goddamn CS would understand a fucking think about Fracture Mechanics but an ME would boringly pick up a programming language just by reading the damn book. Want to learn about UNIX Networking, or threading just read some quality books on both the theory and application. Want to learn how to model Aerodynamics for a multi-body nonlinear dynamics system, spend 5 years building up to it. How come? It's far more complex and requires skills that you can't learn in a book. Engineering has many disciplines because people have many different aptitudes towards applied Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Learning a new hashing algorithm isn't an aptitude, but just exposure of how a programming language, compiler and software APIs are designed to best be utilized. They aren't physical immutable laws of programming.
You just need a little bit more physics, able to deal with circuits, microcontroller and so on. Looks much better than CS at least on paper.
A little more Physics? I'm sorry, but having both CS and a Mechanical Engineering, CS might as well be an Art Degree by comparison. I'll take an EE degree holder over a CS major every day of the week to hire.
It seems that an increasing proportion of Computer Science resumes I receive are from recent graduates who don't know much at all about computer science. They've done a little Java or C++ or VB programming, they've explored such in-depth topics as linked lists and arrays, and they've heard of quicksort.
Anything from complexity analysis, language classification, (heaven forbid) Turing machines, to operating systems, memory management, distributed systems, or synchronization? Hell, hell no.
You can't graduate from a Pac 12 conference CS program without having exposure to what you hoped to find in your resumes.
I know it is still true at WSU, UofW, Stanford, OSU, Cal, and UCLA/USC
They seem to be a like a bunch of 5th graders learning to dribble with their non-dominant hand with their present inability to make caching efficient of stored states inside a max/min windowing environment. Hint: Talk to Apple. NeXT did it back in '89.
I'm for gay rights. I like Card's stories. I would be fine if he wrote a story that pushed an anti-gay moral... as long as the story is good. It's always good to look at a story from the other end of the spectrum.
I'm straight and for gay rights, but I would have zero tolerance with some dick head pushing an anti-gay agenda in a world famous comic because his personal beliefs are as they appear. Fuck him. He's an overrated artist who has chosen to push his politics and his art together in a story that he doesn't have final say on. How anyone would have picked him to do a Superman story is odd, but I guess we should ask all the non-gay people to decide what is or is not best for gay people, right?
Many things changed since you had to "compile and tweak libproffer0.2.3". Today Linux just works, and for me personally it is much easier to use than Windows. So, "My family time is limited and I'd rather be spending it with them" than uninstalling "Antivirus 2000" trojan or Ask.com toolbar.
Horse shit that Linux just works. Going on 15 years with Debian along-side OS X and not a single fucking release before a few weeks later in apt-get within Sid do I have some packager screwing up dependencies and/or patching software incorrectly but uploading a new update because it worked on their hobbled configuration, while never testing on a clean staging box to see if his chroot environment has something a standard box will not. It's a constant fiddle fuck with every bit. Take GCC and the constant gcc-4.7.x-nn updates and their mix 'n mash with glibc.
Shit, I can't even waste time dealing with retarded build dependencies requirements for LLVM/Clang 3.2 requiring gcc-4.8 experimental, when I'm building cleanly from trunk against gcc-4.7.2-5. I got bullshit answers from the maintainers and until that crap goes into Sid and they stop fucking around with path changes in libstdc++ and/or now that libc++/lldb/compiler-rt are building from trunk with Debian I personally will dump that crap the first moment the entire archive builds against LLVM/Clang or FreeBSD 10 is finally released, whichever comes sooner.
I understand a lot of budding developers cut their teeth on Debian packaging and more before they worked in SV. I did the opposite and cut my cred at NeXT and Apple. Coming from that to the rest of the industry taught me the rest of the industry is 99% shit and ductape and 1% quality talent. It has been that way for well over a decade and is getting worse.
I'm just thankful Apple and Lattner collectively said, ``Fuck it'' to GCC and invested heavily into LLVM and bringing the world LLDB, Clang, and more. They've convinced most of the talent in the industry to jump on-board. Even Debian is waking up.
the Apple of Linux. I'll likely never run another *buntu install again. Too bloated, too proprietary, too wanting to be commercially successful. Bad taste...
Right. One is a brilliant operating system, top to bottom, the other is Canonical.
This could be really cool if they were able to pack the functions of an iPhone into a stylish looking watch.
However, until they've got the tech that well established, it's going to be a hard sell for most of us: we replaced our watches will cell phones and, in the interest of not carrying duplicate expensive devices, rely on the phone exclusively to tell time.
spent 5 years at The University of Utah studying engineering? Sorry, but you learn that in your freshman year. Great story, but that part is laughable. As a Mechanical Engineering graduate '93 from WSU I know what the hell I'm talking about, just like a person above me claiming the guy is lying.
I have a Nexus 7 and my wife has a Nexus 10. I thought I'd prefer the 10" too, but when it comes down to my usual use case, i.e., laying back on the couch watching a video, surfing the net, or reading a book, it turns out the 7" size is much more comfortable because I can hold it in one hand, and shift it from hand to hand when either arm gets tired. The ten incher is a two handed device, or requires some kind of stand.
It will also fit in jacket/vest pockets.
As for being blind, I have terrible vision in one eye, and merely bad vision in the other. When I'm reading at night I use one of those bendable arm stands but I have to move it to about 10" in front of my face to and jack up the font size to read it without glasses (I've already destroyed one pair by falling asleep wearing them). Even at 7" portrait mode though, it feels weird because my eyes have to move across the sentences from left to right as a result of the large font size. With a 10", the sentences would be even wider, though I suppose I could bump up the font size even more and move it back farther, though I think the effect would be the same and the reach to flip pages kind of awkward.
Pick up a 5 lb dumbell and do some exercises with it. If that's hard to do I suggest you truly need to get off the damn couch.
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You lost me here. If you read the reaction by everyone except Google, all committers are fucking thrilled Google forked. They can now have a unified JSC and move forward instead of wasting countless personnel hours supporting abstractions all because Google wanted a separate Javscript Engine. Don't let the door hit you in the ass their Google, on the way out. If I want to test out Chrome/Chromium I know where to find you.
Minimum wage in 1982 was not $4/hr. It was around $3.25/hr. You were making above minimum wage. I graduated high school in 1987. I finished working at a local radio station at $3.35/hr and no it wasn't the luxury of getting paid to advance my knowledge of programming languages. It was soliciting the general public to determine how the radio station would best serve it's listening audience by pretending to be an impartial service unaffiliated to the station I was working for, all to boost their market share. In short, we were lying and violating FCC rules while getting paid shit to do it.
After doing a Mechanical Engineering B.S. at WSU and later a CS bachelor's my first job was a 9 week contract at NeXT Software Inc for $19/hr. The year is 1996, I'm way overly educated and in the bay area it's a shit wage. God has not a fucking thing to do with being on Earth and Greed has everything to do with cluster bombing the economy into a global shit storm. You got way overpaid in 1998 at $140k plus stock options. I know a ton of folks like you that continue to get way overpaid creating nothing and getting paid a shitload for it. One clue, you're reading resumes. Top Engineers aren't reading resumes, they are in R&D creating projects to help drive a company forward to pay for managers making $140k/year plus benefits to micromanage their staff, none of which wanted the job so you as a fellow engineer stepped up to take it.
Reality: 99% of IT is a me too world which follows and never leads, and is filled with overly paid data entry personnel who with engineering, physics and other hard science degrees slowly move into positions that they do for 20 years and then if they are lucky retire and never look back. Apple, and a handful of other companies drive the entire industry vision which kickstarts the entire Semiconductor industry to create products that these visionaries foresee the world will eventually need. Whether it is CAD, CGI, Applied Engineering, Gaming, you name it, the ones with the imagination challenge those with the scientific pragmatism what is or is not possible to make the impossible. Without them, the Semiconductor industry is stagnant and full of 30 year veterans bored to death but afraid to retire due to the loss of salary and too much free time. They can problem solve like nobody's business, but they sure as hell can't seem to figure out what problems to solve without those creative thinkers. The industry constantly turns to the youth knowing they have no experience and thus too stupid to realize all their bright ideas will be flushed but with a few exceptions, and those most often by pure chance end of succeeding with you most likely never enjoying the spoils of said idea(s).
It's the reason Bushnell talks about some of the greatest ideas come from people who look at the IT Industry and this massive system of me toos cloning and doing repetitive work like drones as wrong, and who carve their own paths to break the monotony by doing the next big idea(s).
Whether it happens to be a Ph.D. or a dude newly released from prison, great ideas come around rarely and when they do don't be afraid to grab onto them and nuture them with the mind that espoused the idea(s) first. If you don't, you'll most likely fuck it up and it'll never become the next insanely great product and/or service(s).
My 22 year since deceased Grandfather and former Vice President of West Coast Credit for Intermediate Credit Federal Bank for the USDA told me when I was young,
I think he was conservative in that observation, and far too kind.
But sure as hell doesn't mean ZFS like the twit who titled this thread as reaching an important 0.61 milestone. I'll pass on Linux with ZFS. I'll use FreeBSD where it is mature.
Oil and gas?! How about Solar? Wind? GeoThermal? LFTR/Thorium? Why are we blowing computer power on dying industries!?
Well, it seems like a waste of computing power to use it to find those things. I mean, we already know where the sun is. We already know where it's windy.
Use that power to simulate solar energy collection systems for optimal designs, to modeling material science simulations to develop more efficient capture systems, to producing potential scenarios for climate change expansion and where to best target a means to reversing it, etc.
There's nothing good about energy beets. We already know we can use algae, and that it is superior in a variety of ways.
Do not cheer this. There is nothing good about this. It is merely less evil than using corn as a fuel feedstock.
Correct and since bio algae is already certified at all levels and WSU/UoW received > $140 million in recent DoE money to expand moreso with the WSU research [jointly with Oregon State and others]: Bio Algae is here. http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/bsel/pnnl.html
Impacts The collective goal at BSEL is to move science to industrial processes in a manner that improves energy security, reduces petroleum imports and decreases the impact of fuels on the environment. PNNL currently has approximately 60 issued and pending patents in the area of biobased processing (30 issued US patents, 19 issued in the last six years). These have resulted in ten commercial licenses and license options. This work has also resulted in one R&D 100 Award Presidential Green Chemistry Award, and provided the basis for creation of a new company.
The advances at WSU, UoW, Oregon State and all the Public/Private patent pending research is probably one reason for this grant to do something alternative--they have to as the other areas are mature and highly patented.
$80 Million to WSU/UofW and later more: http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2011/9/biofuel-research-at-uw-and-wsu-to-help-power-the-economy
This is long overdue.
Then the BioJetFuel project of WSU with Alaska Airlines: http://researchnews.wsu.edu/environment/338.html
Agreed on all points about AMD. Their HSA initiative and the direction of GSN with FX and GPGPU designs, to their APU tieing them together, while embracing ARM 64 hybrids makes their future enormous.
If you're doing numerics, what the fuck (if you'll pardon my French) are you doing buying Apple? I'm working on two-phase Navier-Stokes solvers myself, and I just bought a new rig consisting of 3 boxes each with a Intel Core i7 @ 3.7 GHz, 12 GB RAM, an SSD drive and a big-ass cooling system. In total that cost less than the Mac Pro with a single Core i7 @ 3.3 GHz listed in that article.You're paying 3x more than you should, and you get what extra? A shiny case? Puh-lease.
Mac Pro: 64GB of ECC RAM. Yes a kick ass infrastructure throughout the entire experience. Don't get me wrong, just building a Corsair 650D, Vishera FXX-8350, 32GB of 1866 DDR3, 256 SSD, Twin 2 TB Black WD Drives, waiting on the 8000 series AMD GPGPUs for Crossfire, AX850 Corsair Power Supply, Corsair H110 Water Cooloer and splitting time between Debian and FreeBSD I'm already invested heavily to the tune of $2300-$2500 and no OS X Development. Running LLVM/Clang with OpenCL and the R600 stack soon to be ready for LLVM/Clang 3.3 as a Mechanical Engineer I look forward to seeing how fucking sweet this beast shits all over your set up.
Then again, Apple's OS X OpenCL and GCD throughout is so advanced I know pairing it up with a Mac Pro and whatever the hell Apple comes out with with the same code via LLVM/Clang/LLDB would allow me with the AMD 7000 series now supported to really start eating up those numerical analysis needs, not to mention FEA/CFD. I tell you what: Go buy both rigs and learn Cocoa Dev and what both systems will offer. As soon as FreeBSD 10 is out with binary graphics drivers from AMD I will not even waste my time on Linux and I'll get ZFS to boot.
The Dev Tools on OS X are robust, far more mature than Linux irregardless of the BS about Qt 5.x and of course with WebGL/WebCL and WebKit 2.x nightly on either set up I have lots of options. Then with LLVM/Clang 3.3 comes the addition of OpenMP amongst other new and robust tools that the GCC crowd knows is pushing them to the limit. I can't fucking stand C++ and C/ObjC gives me the best of both worlds. I've still got FORTRAN to boot on both systems as well.
Most Engineers have multiple high-end systems to do their work. You pissing about spending for the Mac tells me you haven't owned the Mac Pro, used OS X extensively and either choose or cannot choose to have both configurations for your needs.
The beauty of the upcoming Mac Pro is the price point drops and that will piss off the competition.
When you're incorporated doing work you also write down these purchases.
I just cannot embrace the mess C++ became anymore. Life is too short to learn C++. Basically I'm using "C with classes" today, without STL, Boost or any of these aberrations.
We in the NeXT world have been using C with Smalltalk like classes for a long time.
It's a crock of crap that the market isn't lucrative enough. They got beat out and when people started asking them how come not them, this is their answer.
One good reason to purchase a mac with Mountain Lion is to be authorized to develop for iOS, or to do any console logging in Safari post iOS 6. In fact, I have one sitting in the corner of my office for exactly that purpose. It runs a little utility which allows us to upload binaries (developed on a platform of our choosing) to the app store, and runs a console logger for safari. Mountain Lion is the only platform authorized to do those two tasks, and so you are pretty much forced to have it if you want to develop for iOS. That god damn mac is the only piece of technology I have ever used that makes me rage with every part of my being.
Rage on. You must be quite system illiterate if OS X frustrates you.
With all the growth of OS X, LLVM/Clang and a slew of corporations moving to LLVM/Clang I'm seeing FreeBSD getting a lot of love. With version 10, a lot of infrastructure for both FreeBSD proper and Debian FreeBSD is making Linux less and less attractive.
In point of fact, the plural of MILF would actually be MILF.
Mothers....
From American Pie it means Mom I'd like to fuck. She's a MILF. She's not a Mothers I'd like to fuck. How it turned into a plural is anyone's guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBN_SUfW2OM
Unless you go to a decent school where CS IS engineering. Including the same math and physics requirements. Then when you fail out of engineering, you end up in business school.
CS is not FUCKING ENGINEERING. It never will be. It is called Computer Science for a reason. Most ME/EE graduates I knew had FORTRAN, C and C++ for Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics and more. Not a goddamn CS would understand a fucking think about Fracture Mechanics but an ME would boringly pick up a programming language just by reading the damn book. Want to learn about UNIX Networking, or threading just read some quality books on both the theory and application. Want to learn how to model Aerodynamics for a multi-body nonlinear dynamics system, spend 5 years building up to it. How come? It's far more complex and requires skills that you can't learn in a book. Engineering has many disciplines because people have many different aptitudes towards applied Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Learning a new hashing algorithm isn't an aptitude, but just exposure of how a programming language, compiler and software APIs are designed to best be utilized. They aren't physical immutable laws of programming.
You just need a little bit more physics, able to deal with circuits, microcontroller and so on. Looks much better than CS at least on paper.
A little more Physics? I'm sorry, but having both CS and a Mechanical Engineering, CS might as well be an Art Degree by comparison. I'll take an EE degree holder over a CS major every day of the week to hire.
It seems that an increasing proportion of Computer Science resumes I receive are from recent graduates who don't know much at all about computer science. They've done a little Java or C++ or VB programming, they've explored such in-depth topics as linked lists and arrays, and they've heard of quicksort. Anything from complexity analysis, language classification, (heaven forbid) Turing machines, to operating systems, memory management, distributed systems, or synchronization? Hell, hell no.
You can't graduate from a Pac 12 conference CS program without having exposure to what you hoped to find in your resumes.
I know it is still true at WSU, UofW, Stanford, OSU, Cal, and UCLA/USC
They seem to be a like a bunch of 5th graders learning to dribble with their non-dominant hand with their present inability to make caching efficient of stored states inside a max/min windowing environment. Hint: Talk to Apple. NeXT did it back in '89.
First you're incredibly regressive (say, dealing with reproductive rights) and then you do something pretty cool.
Who gives a rat's ass of what they think they are doing? They have no authority to do so.
I'm for gay rights. I like Card's stories. I would be fine if he wrote a story that pushed an anti-gay moral... as long as the story is good. It's always good to look at a story from the other end of the spectrum.
I'm straight and for gay rights, but I would have zero tolerance with some dick head pushing an anti-gay agenda in a world famous comic because his personal beliefs are as they appear. Fuck him. He's an overrated artist who has chosen to push his politics and his art together in a story that he doesn't have final say on. How anyone would have picked him to do a Superman story is odd, but I guess we should ask all the non-gay people to decide what is or is not best for gay people, right?
Many things changed since you had to "compile and tweak libproffer0.2.3". Today Linux just works, and for me personally it is much easier to use than Windows. So, "My family time is limited and I'd rather be spending it with them" than uninstalling "Antivirus 2000" trojan or Ask.com toolbar.
Horse shit that Linux just works. Going on 15 years with Debian along-side OS X and not a single fucking release before a few weeks later in apt-get within Sid do I have some packager screwing up dependencies and/or patching software incorrectly but uploading a new update because it worked on their hobbled configuration, while never testing on a clean staging box to see if his chroot environment has something a standard box will not. It's a constant fiddle fuck with every bit. Take GCC and the constant gcc-4.7.x-nn updates and their mix 'n mash with glibc.
Shit, I can't even waste time dealing with retarded build dependencies requirements for LLVM/Clang 3.2 requiring gcc-4.8 experimental, when I'm building cleanly from trunk against gcc-4.7.2-5. I got bullshit answers from the maintainers and until that crap goes into Sid and they stop fucking around with path changes in libstdc++ and/or now that libc++/lldb/compiler-rt are building from trunk with Debian I personally will dump that crap the first moment the entire archive builds against LLVM/Clang or FreeBSD 10 is finally released, whichever comes sooner.
I understand a lot of budding developers cut their teeth on Debian packaging and more before they worked in SV. I did the opposite and cut my cred at NeXT and Apple. Coming from that to the rest of the industry taught me the rest of the industry is 99% shit and ductape and 1% quality talent. It has been that way for well over a decade and is getting worse.
I'm just thankful Apple and Lattner collectively said, ``Fuck it'' to GCC and invested heavily into LLVM and bringing the world LLDB, Clang, and more. They've convinced most of the talent in the industry to jump on-board. Even Debian is waking up.
As opposed to a non-hypocritcal drama queen?
the Apple of Linux. I'll likely never run another *buntu install again. Too bloated, too proprietary, too wanting to be commercially successful. Bad taste...
Right. One is a brilliant operating system, top to bottom, the other is Canonical.
This could be really cool if they were able to pack the functions of an iPhone into a stylish looking watch.
However, until they've got the tech that well established, it's going to be a hard sell for most of us: we replaced our watches will cell phones and, in the interest of not carrying duplicate expensive devices, rely on the phone exclusively to tell time.
Watch sales are nearly $20 Billion, annually, so yes, ``someone still uses a fucking watch.'' http://www.fhs.ch/en/statistics.php
So, is the damned cat dead or alive?
Could be the Cat is just an illusion.
spent 5 years at The University of Utah studying engineering? Sorry, but you learn that in your freshman year. Great story, but that part is laughable. As a Mechanical Engineering graduate '93 from WSU I know what the hell I'm talking about, just like a person above me claiming the guy is lying.
I have a Nexus 7 and my wife has a Nexus 10. I thought I'd prefer the 10" too, but when it comes down to my usual use case, i.e., laying back on the couch watching a video, surfing the net, or reading a book, it turns out the 7" size is much more comfortable because I can hold it in one hand, and shift it from hand to hand when either arm gets tired. The ten incher is a two handed device, or requires some kind of stand.
It will also fit in jacket/vest pockets.
As for being blind, I have terrible vision in one eye, and merely bad vision in the other. When I'm reading at night I use one of those bendable arm stands but I have to move it to about 10" in front of my face to and jack up the font size to read it without glasses (I've already destroyed one pair by falling asleep wearing them). Even at 7" portrait mode though, it feels weird because my eyes have to move across the sentences from left to right as a result of the large font size. With a 10", the sentences would be even wider, though I suppose I could bump up the font size even more and move it back farther, though I think the effect would be the same and the reach to flip pages kind of awkward.
Pick up a 5 lb dumbell and do some exercises with it. If that's hard to do I suggest you truly need to get off the damn couch.