So he moved into his in-laws' house in Atlanta and focused on contributing to an open-source project that he and others had started in 1999, JBoss. All he wanted to do, he told his wife, was write code for free all day long. "She told me I was stupid," he says, and gave him a year to make $70,000 or else get a job. Then companies downloading JBoss software started asking him for training and support -- and offering to pay. A year later, Fleury had made more than $100,000.
"Well dear. How about you get off your ass and go get that $70,000/yr job and I'll be at home watching the kid while I program? Mmmkay?"
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Pindicks everyone of them. Perhaps if there were some technologists, scientists, etc., in the Senate and the House we'd get a more representative body for the People? Stop voting Democrat and Republican. Vote Libertarian, Independent or whatever party that doesn't continue this glorious burden.
I don't know what university you went to but mine included Mechanical Engineers who studied vector analysis, combinatorics, advanced matrix analysis, advanced diffeq of ODE/PDEs, manifold design, etc.
Show me ten Ph.D's in Physics and I'll show you ten Ph.D's in Mechanical/Material Science Engineering or Electrical Engineering and let's compare notes on what makes a Scientist and what makes an Engineer.
Simple: One knows both theory and how to apply it to create products and services the World uses; and the other continues to expound upon theory and teach it under the guise of adding some breakthrough the World will eventually utilize. Of course this research is a requirement for both types of titles.
Care to choose whether that is the Scientist or Engineer?
We had a saying in Engineering disciplines:
If you can't do Chemical/Mech-Mat/Electrical you do Civil/Environ and if you can't do Civil/Environ you do Mathematics and if you can't do Mathematics you do Physics.
The reason for such a broadly sweeping generalization that clearly isn't an immutable truism was due to the countless observations in undergraduate programs that all the top math and physics students applied to engineering schools and their various disciplines. I recalled fondly my Heat Transfer examinations where the curve actually hurt you and then compared a friend of mine who had dropped Chem. Eng. for Physics proudly displaying his 60% A+ exam and stated the rest of the class was in the low 40%. He had no problem freely admitting in Vector Analysis that his grades skyrocketed after he left Chem. Engineering. We both agreed that it was a combination of effects. The quality of competition and his renewed vigor and focus kept him focused. The competition was always steep in engineering and continues to be, not because most professional engineers can even remember a PDE or ODE but because the profession doesn't allow for such padded curves. Factors of Safety and real world regulations that deal with design against lawsuits, etc., shows that outside of the bubble of theory, practical application demands many more concerns, the foremost being human safety trumping any theoretically cool, new breakthrough.
My apologies for the generalizations but if the Newsweek journalist believes this country doesn't have a gap in available engineers to fill in the gap then perhaps he should write about how hundreds of thousands of engineers having to switch careers because these noble professions don't keep one afloat is where companies should look. I became an engineer for the chance to work in a profession that is always challenging and peaks one's interests. When reality trumped fantasy I switched professions.
Clarification: I/O Kit (C++) device driver set of frameworks was developed after the merger and from day one was on both Intel and PPC. If one is going to make claims it's always best to get the timeline correct.
Before you lose your morals, just open the package, read the license, and decide to adhere or not to its requirements; and if you feel morally you can't adhere to it then just return the package and get a refund.
Douglas N. C. Lin, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1991
If you look him up he is all over about Astrophysics and applied mathematics.
Betty Young, Santa Clara:
Betty Young, Physics, a 1-year award from award from the University of California-Berkeley, on an NSF prime contract, providing $36,406 in continuing support for CDMSII: A Search for Cold Dark Matter with Cryogenic Detectors at the Soudan Mine.
Associate Professor
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Professor Young received a B.S. degree in Physics from the San Francisco State University in 1982. In 1990, she received a Ph.D. from Stanford University where she worked on the development of cryogenic particle detectors with superconducting sensors. After graduate school, she spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Particle Astrophysics at UC Berkeley. Since coming to Santa Clara in 1994, Professor Young has established a research group at Santa Clara University and continues to work with the multi-institutional Cold Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration.
Now whatever becomes of this Alex Mayer and his credentials are yet to be determined. However, I doubt Stanford would even allow him web space under the Physics department if he didn't have the credentials to back it up.
Hate to pee in your Wheaties, but the Globe isn't a Thin-wall pressure vessel with a spicket at the Poles that with a "constant" nozzle rate of pressure will elevate the sea level evenly across the Globe.
Nope. Instead we'll see increased shifts in wind systems, uptick on the frequency of land breaching Hurricanes of varying CAT levels and other areas of normal tropical trade currents be converted to more arid regions. Perhaps the middle of Australia will no longer be brush and desert and perhaps the Amazon will overflow and destroy large localized ecosystems resulting in decay and disease? The fact is the CO(2) output by all nations needs to be capped. Yet, in the U.S. we have this President discussing cleaner burning coal. How dense does he really think any engineer or scientist is to not see how cleaner burning fuel to pollute the atmosphere is like filtered piss as an acceptable substitution for clean water.
What is more important, be a showmen technologist like Jobs or an humanitarian missionaire like Gates?
Quick! Get me the jug of moonshine. Hurry! The stench of this bold statement makes the odor of human waste seem like a breath mint. What's next? Ellison is a humanitarian as well?
Humanitarians take their money, absorb the taxes on it and don't write it off. They don't run Public Relations campaigns to get on Time Magazine and they actually just do it. They don't rape the industry of countless advancements, because they can legally get away without until told otherwise, and think your Karma (Law of Cause & Effect) will be purged by working with your "wife" who directs you into spreading "good will" to the Third World. The man lies, cheats and rapes the public over and over, then whines he's being stolen from without cause most certainly has earned the title of crusader in its most unsavory sense.
Obviously, my bias for Steve is clear. Having worked in two of his companies I can tell you for sure that Steve ruined my perception of the entire IT Industry--his companies gave a false sense of confidence that they were indicative of the IT Industry, in general. In fact, they were the exception to the rule. Once one gets passed that headache then life is its usual peaks and valleys.
As a pragmatic Libertarian I highly recommend you read the Jefferson Writings from the Library of America.
Not to defend Lincoln one bit, but the issue first arises during the debates on the Articles of Confederation and how States should be taxed concerning the value of property. Mr. [Samuel] Chase attempts to proclaim Slaves as a non-labor force thus tax free and immune to State taxation, whereas Mr. John Adams rightly discusses the relationship of the north and their "cattle" to that of the south and their "slaves" and rules the slaves out as cattle--tax free labor--and rightly debates slaves as freemen in matters of invested labor where both property owners could equally invest their labor needs in cattle to replace the work of either freemen or slaves thus eroding the false claim that slaves are tax free property.
Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison proposed a compromise of merits between freemen and slaves wherein the freeman is worth the value of two slaves.
Mr. [James] Wilson in a lengthy and sound argument debates the relationship of profit skimming by the Southern States and increased importation of tax free labor (slaves) will add to the burden of the nation's cost to defend such a workforce thus drawing upon a disproportionate burden of tax on the Northern States due to several issues not the least of which includes labor costs of freemen (basic needs of food and clothing) being greater than that of a slave.
In short, the Southern States wanted to be able to have their cake and eat it as well. If they didn't have to pay taxes on certain classifications of labor (cattle==slaves) then they would maximize their tax free labor to its fullest. Their net profits would increase disproportionately to their Northern counterparts yet the need to defend such an enormous labor force would, by tax percentage, draw disproportionately on the Northern States to compensate for the resources to defend these laborers against foreign enemies. The North was getting jacked up by the South and the South "just couldn't be bothered" with such nonsense.
Pragmatically, the Southern States couldn't be bothered with retrofitting their slaves with cattle or freemen laborers since that would dip into their profits. Instead, they'd rather go to War.
Amazing! The guy does his vision quest to India and sees the Dali Lama and practices Eastern Religious philosophies and suddenly he's a fanatical supporter of the Vatican? Definitely not the same Steve Jobs I saw at work.
Lawyers were paid by the word so the more words they crammed in the more they were paid. It became a standard practice and soon the required approach to litigation whereas later they decried, "Cover all thy bases." It's the point of the joke.
Exactly. One could say, "I almost layed Jenna Jameson before she made it in the Adult Movie Industry."
In hindsight, that same person can say, "I was almost one of thousands to lay Jenna Jameson after she made it in the Adult Movie Industry, but one of only ten men to actually nail her."
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Let's get some basic math resolved. Steve Jobs owns 50.6% of a roughly $7 Billion publicly traded corporation, PIXAR. Assuming this rumor is fact and that the combined valuation of the merger is $60 Billion (Disney at $54 Billion + $7 Billion in Cash--no stock swap) then Steve owns no matter how you swing has (.506 x $7 Billion) / ($60 Billion Valuation at time of merger) = 5.9 % of DIXSNAR's/PIXNEY's total company value. If it is a stock swap then it becomes.506 x 7 / 53 = 6.68%: close but no cigar.
Both Steve being majority owner and 7% as highest individual stock holder are incorrect. What is most pitiful is the fact that PIXAR built a brand new corporate headquarters a few years back, became the powerhouse in Software Animation Films for both content and presentation, publically denounced their partnership with Disney and publically focused on a new roadmap for this highly creative and technically sound corporation all just to merge with the enemy? Pathetic. Disney has everything to gain and PIXAR has everything to lose. Distribution channels that everyone brags about with Disney are overvalued, especially in the emerging distribution mechanisms gaining ground today--Podcasting/videocasting, etc.
What I find most disturbing is the many enthusiasts discussing Steve Jobs becoming Disney's CEO and steering them like he has done with Apple. Get something straight. As Steve said, "Apple is my old girlfriend I haven't seen in 20 years but I want to give one more shot." PIXAR never was Steve's main focus. It was either NeXT or presently, Apple. He loves making the big partnerships but much prefers driving the mechanisms and tools that let the Producers produce over attempting to drive Producers and retool them into his Vision. He's best when he gives the creative minds the means to be their most creative, period. The day Steve would rather give a Keynote about "Goofy in the 21st Century" over "OS X Lion" will be when they take him away to the Insane Asylum.
Wrong. Steve actually walked out of being the special Consultant to Gil because Gil wasn't taking his advice. Steve diverted all of his attentions back to PIXAR which was starting to wear on the highly "artistic" bunch at PIXAR.
CFO Fred Anderson approached Steve on the idea of having him return as the CEO with the board voting Gil out of his position. Steve insisted on the iterim-CEO position. Over time it became clear that Steve was better at Apple and focused on PIXAR when it came to steering the system for the best contract deals possible--the 50/50 with Disney on Toy Story II being one of many results.
Here you will sit in the seat of a 1970 Chevy Impala replication, and watch driver safety movies in the screen at the head of the room. After the second or third pedestrian jumping out-of-nowhere that kills your score you'll soon discover that the speedometer works and push this bastard to 120mph. The instructor with the balding head who greases his hair and extends it over the baldspot will be your record keeper. He'll even remind you to slow down and take this simulation more seriously if you expect to pass the class and be able to take the test.
For those of you age 18 taking driver's ed in your senior year you're already too dense to realize you don't need this class to get your license. But on the flipside, that lack of intelligence which translates to lack of motor skills is currently keeping perhaps one, a few, or several unsuspecting fellow citizens from getting blindsighted when you mistakenly hit the gas pedal when the break pedal is just about 2 inches to the left.
Ahh. Now that several weeks of Grand Turismo simulation sessions are in the past it is time to take this puppy out with several other classmates, and the dreaded weasel who gets to play Caesar for an hour.
"Is this our car?" you utter with clear disgust in your tone.
"What did you think it was going to be? This is public school." replied Caesar.
Flash forward to an insider Daimler Chrysler meeting. One engineer reports on research from Detroit.
The top ten list of must have ideas from Detroit.
1. Electronically Controlled Braking.
Reasoning: Well with 2/3rds of the GDP in the hands of the above 55 crowd we don't want to lose them. Afterall, besides gangster rap artists, some really bad hollywood drivers and a few car afficianados who else can afford this car? Old people that's who.
"How about lightrail trains?" asked one engineer.
"Trainnnns? We killed those in the 20s. You come up with trains again and you're fired mister!" came the voice of management who appeared as a rather short, non-descript man who finally saw his grandfather's vision fulfilled. No sooner had this moment of bliss surfaced then it was dashed by the vent system above turning on and blowing his wispy hair from the top of his head which revealed a rather large hereditary spot of baldness.
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"Well dear. How about you get off your ass and go get that $70,000/yr job and I'll be at home watching the kid while I program? Mmmkay?"
Women will fuck anything for money and many will just fuck any Woman. Someone wanted his babies?
Addendum: Odds have gone from 0:1.1 Billion to 1:1.1 Billion.
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Pindicks everyone of them. Perhaps if there were some technologists, scientists, etc., in the Senate and the House we'd get a more representative body for the People? Stop voting Democrat and Republican. Vote Libertarian, Independent or whatever party that doesn't continue this glorious burden.
I don't know what university you went to but mine included Mechanical Engineers who studied vector analysis, combinatorics, advanced matrix analysis, advanced diffeq of ODE/PDEs, manifold design, etc.
1 to 4, not 1 in 4. Big difference.
Show me ten Ph.D's in Physics and I'll show you ten Ph.D's in Mechanical/Material Science Engineering or Electrical Engineering and let's compare notes on what makes a Scientist and what makes an Engineer.
Simple: One knows both theory and how to apply it to create products and services the World uses; and the other continues to expound upon theory and teach it under the guise of adding some breakthrough the World will eventually utilize. Of course this research is a requirement for both types of titles.
Care to choose whether that is the Scientist or Engineer?
We had a saying in Engineering disciplines:
If you can't do Chemical/Mech-Mat/Electrical you do Civil/Environ and if you can't do Civil/Environ you do Mathematics and if you can't do Mathematics you do Physics.
The reason for such a broadly sweeping generalization that clearly isn't an immutable truism was due to the countless observations in undergraduate programs that all the top math and physics students applied to engineering schools and their various disciplines. I recalled fondly my Heat Transfer examinations where the curve actually hurt you and then compared a friend of mine who had dropped Chem. Eng. for Physics proudly displaying his 60% A+ exam and stated the rest of the class was in the low 40%. He had no problem freely admitting in Vector Analysis that his grades skyrocketed after he left Chem. Engineering. We both agreed that it was a combination of effects. The quality of competition and his renewed vigor and focus kept him focused. The competition was always steep in engineering and continues to be, not because most professional engineers can even remember a PDE or ODE but because the profession doesn't allow for such padded curves. Factors of Safety and real world regulations that deal with design against lawsuits, etc., shows that outside of the bubble of theory, practical application demands many more concerns, the foremost being human safety trumping any theoretically cool, new breakthrough.
My apologies for the generalizations but if the Newsweek journalist believes this country doesn't have a gap in available engineers to fill in the gap then perhaps he should write about how hundreds of thousands of engineers having to switch careers because these noble professions don't keep one afloat is where companies should look. I became an engineer for the chance to work in a profession that is always challenging and peaks one's interests. When reality trumped fantasy I switched professions.
Clarification: I/O Kit (C++) device driver set of frameworks was developed after the merger and from day one was on both Intel and PPC. If one is going to make claims it's always best to get the timeline correct.
Before you lose your morals, just open the package, read the license, and decide to adhere or not to its requirements; and if you feel morally you can't adhere to it then just return the package and get a refund.
Of course not. It just means you are that much less in the red.
Blind Faith standing over Skepticism and to save face as the outline of the body of Truth lies floating in the Bay the reponse can only be...
If you look at his colleagues,
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then cross-reference a few of them:
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Douglas N. C. Lin, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1991
If you look him up he is all over about Astrophysics and applied mathematics.
Betty Young, Santa Clara:
Now if you research Betty you find this:
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http://www.scu.edu/cas/physics/facultyandstaff/yo
Now whatever becomes of this Alex Mayer and his credentials are yet to be determined. However, I doubt Stanford would even allow him web space under the Physics department if he didn't have the credentials to back it up.
Hate to pee in your Wheaties, but the Globe isn't a Thin-wall pressure vessel with a spicket at the Poles that with a "constant" nozzle rate of pressure will elevate the sea level evenly across the Globe.
Nope. Instead we'll see increased shifts in wind systems, uptick on the frequency of land breaching Hurricanes of varying CAT levels and other areas of normal tropical trade currents be converted to more arid regions. Perhaps the middle of Australia will no longer be brush and desert and perhaps the Amazon will overflow and destroy large localized ecosystems resulting in decay and disease? The fact is the CO(2) output by all nations needs to be capped. Yet, in the U.S. we have this President discussing cleaner burning coal. How dense does he really think any engineer or scientist is to not see how cleaner burning fuel to pollute the atmosphere is like filtered piss as an acceptable substitution for clean water.
The word you're looking for is vacuous, not vacious.
Quick! Get me the jug of moonshine. Hurry! The stench of this bold statement makes the odor of human waste seem like a breath mint. What's next? Ellison is a humanitarian as well?
Humanitarians take their money, absorb the taxes on it and don't write it off. They don't run Public Relations campaigns to get on Time Magazine and they actually just do it. They don't rape the industry of countless advancements, because they can legally get away without until told otherwise, and think your Karma (Law of Cause & Effect) will be purged by working with your "wife" who directs you into spreading "good will" to the Third World. The man lies, cheats and rapes the public over and over, then whines he's being stolen from without cause most certainly has earned the title of crusader in its most unsavory sense.
Obviously, my bias for Steve is clear. Having worked in two of his companies I can tell you for sure that Steve ruined my perception of the entire IT Industry--his companies gave a false sense of confidence that they were indicative of the IT Industry, in general. In fact, they were the exception to the rule. Once one gets passed that headache then life is its usual peaks and valleys.
Not to defend Lincoln one bit, but the issue first arises during the debates on the Articles of Confederation and how States should be taxed concerning the value of property. Mr. [Samuel] Chase attempts to proclaim Slaves as a non-labor force thus tax free and immune to State taxation, whereas Mr. John Adams rightly discusses the relationship of the north and their "cattle" to that of the south and their "slaves" and rules the slaves out as cattle--tax free labor--and rightly debates slaves as freemen in matters of invested labor where both property owners could equally invest their labor needs in cattle to replace the work of either freemen or slaves thus eroding the false claim that slaves are tax free property.
Mr. [Benjamin] Harrison proposed a compromise of merits between freemen and slaves wherein the freeman is worth the value of two slaves.
Mr. [James] Wilson in a lengthy and sound argument debates the relationship of profit skimming by the Southern States and increased importation of tax free labor (slaves) will add to the burden of the nation's cost to defend such a workforce thus drawing upon a disproportionate burden of tax on the Northern States due to several issues not the least of which includes labor costs of freemen (basic needs of food and clothing) being greater than that of a slave.
In short, the Southern States wanted to be able to have their cake and eat it as well. If they didn't have to pay taxes on certain classifications of labor (cattle==slaves) then they would maximize their tax free labor to its fullest. Their net profits would increase disproportionately to their Northern counterparts yet the need to defend such an enormous labor force would, by tax percentage, draw disproportionately on the Northern States to compensate for the resources to defend these laborers against foreign enemies. The North was getting jacked up by the South and the South "just couldn't be bothered" with such nonsense.
Pragmatically, the Southern States couldn't be bothered with retrofitting their slaves with cattle or freemen laborers since that would dip into their profits. Instead, they'd rather go to War.
Amazing! The guy does his vision quest to India and sees the Dali Lama and practices Eastern Religious philosophies and suddenly he's a fanatical supporter of the Vatican? Definitely not the same Steve Jobs I saw at work.
Lawyers were paid by the word so the more words they crammed in the more they were paid. It became a standard practice and soon the required approach to litigation whereas later they decried, "Cover all thy bases." It's the point of the joke.
In hindsight, that same person can say, "I was almost one of thousands to lay Jenna Jameson after she made it in the Adult Movie Industry, but one of only ten men to actually nail her."
Let's get some basic math resolved. Steve Jobs owns 50.6% of a roughly $7 Billion publicly traded corporation, PIXAR. Assuming this rumor is fact and that the combined valuation of the merger is $60 Billion (Disney at $54 Billion + $7 Billion in Cash--no stock swap) then Steve owns no matter how you swing has (.506 x $7 Billion) / ($60 Billion Valuation at time of merger) = 5.9 % of DIXSNAR's/PIXNEY's total company value. If it is a stock swap then it becomes .506 x 7 / 53 = 6.68%: close but no cigar.
Both Steve being majority owner and 7% as highest individual stock holder are incorrect. What is most pitiful is the fact that PIXAR built a brand new corporate headquarters a few years back, became the powerhouse in Software Animation Films for both content and presentation, publically denounced their partnership with Disney and publically focused on a new roadmap for this highly creative and technically sound corporation all just to merge with the enemy? Pathetic. Disney has everything to gain and PIXAR has everything to lose. Distribution channels that everyone brags about with Disney are overvalued, especially in the emerging distribution mechanisms gaining ground today--Podcasting/videocasting, etc.
What I find most disturbing is the many enthusiasts discussing Steve Jobs becoming Disney's CEO and steering them like he has done with Apple. Get something straight. As Steve said, "Apple is my old girlfriend I haven't seen in 20 years but I want to give one more shot." PIXAR never was Steve's main focus. It was either NeXT or presently, Apple. He loves making the big partnerships but much prefers driving the mechanisms and tools that let the Producers produce over attempting to drive Producers and retool them into his Vision. He's best when he gives the creative minds the means to be their most creative, period. The day Steve would rather give a Keynote about "Goofy in the 21st Century" over "OS X Lion" will be when they take him away to the Insane Asylum.
CFO Fred Anderson approached Steve on the idea of having him return as the CEO with the board voting Gil out of his position. Steve insisted on the iterim-CEO position. Over time it became clear that Steve was better at Apple and focused on PIXAR when it came to steering the system for the best contract deals possible--the 50/50 with Disney on Toy Story II being one of many results.
Question: From what piece of B-movie brilliance do these words utter forth?
"Good people of Earth. Heed my warning.."
Here you will sit in the seat of a 1970 Chevy Impala replication, and watch driver safety movies in the screen at the head of the room. After the second or third pedestrian jumping out-of-nowhere that kills your score you'll soon discover that the speedometer works and push this bastard to 120mph. The instructor with the balding head who greases his hair and extends it over the baldspot will be your record keeper. He'll even remind you to slow down and take this simulation more seriously if you expect to pass the class and be able to take the test.
For those of you age 18 taking driver's ed in your senior year you're already too dense to realize you don't need this class to get your license. But on the flipside, that lack of intelligence which translates to lack of motor skills is currently keeping perhaps one, a few, or several unsuspecting fellow citizens from getting blindsighted when you mistakenly hit the gas pedal when the break pedal is just about 2 inches to the left.
Ahh. Now that several weeks of Grand Turismo simulation sessions are in the past it is time to take this puppy out with several other classmates, and the dreaded weasel who gets to play Caesar for an hour.
"Is this our car?" you utter with clear disgust in your tone.
"What did you think it was going to be? This is public school." replied Caesar.
Flash forward to an insider Daimler Chrysler meeting. One engineer reports on research from Detroit.
The top ten list of must have ideas from Detroit.
1. Electronically Controlled Braking.
Reasoning: Well with 2/3rds of the GDP in the hands of the above 55 crowd we don't want to lose them. Afterall, besides gangster rap artists, some really bad hollywood drivers and a few car afficianados who else can afford this car? Old people that's who.
"How about lightrail trains?" asked one engineer.
"Trainnnns? We killed those in the 20s. You come up with trains again and you're fired mister!" came the voice of management who appeared as a rather short, non-descript man who finally saw his grandfather's vision fulfilled. No sooner had this moment of bliss surfaced then it was dashed by the vent system above turning on and blowing his wispy hair from the top of his head which revealed a rather large hereditary spot of baldness.