It may be worth pointing out that Professionals don't have to not love their work, or that Open Source code cannot be created by people who do not love it. I made neither point.
The difference between a professional and an amateur is that amateurs work for the love of it and professionals work because they get paid. Sort of the difference between a spouse and a hooker. Which side does MS fall on?
I'd vote for finishing school as soon as possible. The BS is worth something but after your first job the grades won't matter.
As a firmware engineer of 27 years I'm much more interested in: the candidate's presence (i.e. how well they handle themselves), the extra-curriculars (are they REALLY interested in the things they work on? Do they have a passion for anything? Open source projects are good, ham radio license or private pilot is better), and for how complete their knowledge is of the things they say they know.
Education/Accedemia is NOT the same as the real world and showing that you can spend all sorts of time working for a university is NOT as impressive as showing me that you can work for me, AND for yourself.
If portable means not-on-MS OSs, then they absolutely had portable code in the past, AND present. MSWord was available on MacOS years before it was available on MSWindows. For that matter MSBASIC was available on CP/M a whole decade before MSWindows and I'm not sure it was EVER released on MSWindows.
MS STILL makes products for the Macintosh and while none of those products is as nice as what they had before MSWindows came out they are still useful. MSWord for Mac is still my favorite word processor.
It seems to me that this is the year that HD has come of age. DVD players that finally play 1080, and Tivo is out. And to top that all you can now get a reasonably priced camcorder to record HD. Merry Christmas. I could do entirely without a new video game or Microsoft software package.
One thing i wish Mr. Jobs would do is credit the prior-art. A thank-you to virtual desktops would have been nice, followed by the wiz-bang of zooming out to see all 4 (I haven't seen THAT done before).
What I really want to see is the ability to run two displays on the computer, but each with a separate log-in and separate key/mouse set. We could then claim our lab had 20 seats even though we only had 10 computers, each with 2 displays, 2 chairs, 2 keyboards, 2 mice. When the lab is sitting mostly empty (most of the time) each user would have 2 displays.
Tadd
Tivo hasn't yet forced us to watch commercials. I have heard several times over the past 4 years that they would be doing so but so far it has not happened.
My aunt has a webTV and she still uses it. It is a web and email terminal. It never needs technical support. It hasn't crashed or needed support in 4 years. The cost of ownership has been exactly equal to the monthly payments which is half the cost of the add-on for a cable modem. She's checks her email and replies within 24 hours.
For somebody who doesn't need to create content and is complacent with not having to watch movies, play music, or put up with pop-ups, virus plan renewals, etc... the WebTV is fine.
I wonder if the give away of 10 video ipods was calculated to be almost at the same time (but just before) the announcement they'd scheduled for Feb 28? Coincidence? I think not!
Rumor has it that Apple will announce new and improved video ipods with all conceivable features including factory chrome!
I had major issues with my 2000 TDI New Beetle. We had 3 disabling events in the 4th year of ownership. Mileage between 60K and 80K miles. Even though my other car (a 1994 Lexus ES300) has 240,000 miles on it and the New Beetle was totally paid off we felt compelled to dismiss the Beetle.
During its first 60,000 miles we were seeing about 750 miles per tank at about 45 miles per gallon. It was a wonderful thing. However, this does not overcome a basic unreliability of the car (coupled with the inability of the local VW service people in Orlando to deal with it). Consumers Reports showed the New Beetle as no longer having the expected reliability as they showed in 2000 when we first started considering it.
In addition to basic motor problems the car had cosmetic defects caused by normal wear -- namely the plastic covering on parts was disintegrating.
Your Mileage May Vary (I had to say that).
On another related subject.. what I really want is a hybrid car with a mode switch that lets me select how low I'm willing to let the battery go before it starts the gas motor. If I'm commuting the 7 miles from home to work and around town I'd like it to let the battery go down to 20% or so -- I'll plug it in when i get home, thank you. While I'm on the highway I'd prefer it to keep the charge a little higher. Perhaps under I-Don't-Know mode I'd like it to keep the battery fully charged. I test drove the Lexus RX400H and was dismayed to see that the gas motor ran all the time I was driving. What for?
First things first 1. Choose the right computer. If you can't understand the tool after a minor amount of instruction it probably isn't the right tool. You aren't stupid (look what book you are reading.) The tool is supposed to be designed for you, the user. If it isn't, then it may be the wrong tool. Some tools require too much practice to be useful or safe. Consider the helicopter, dental drill, violin, surf board or a car. A car is harder to own and operate than public transportation. To some the trade-off for car ownership is worth it. Is it better? Some computers are easier to learn and possibly less versatile. It doesn't help you to have a computer that is too hard to use. What computers are easier to buy, operate, transport, etc? What do you give up by picking a computer that is easy? Will WebTV, Xbox or Macintosh serve your purpose? Can you afford to have professional support for your computing needs?
2. A computer is a device that processes. In order for a computer to be useful it must also interact. The ones that interact with humans generally have visual outputs and tactile inputs. it may be useful to know where the information that will be, is being, and has been processed is gotten from, used, and stored at. How the information is entered, used, and delivered is worth discussing.
3. Interactions between computers is what networking is all about.
I agree. There was so much work done on this in the 60s that took us so close to being able to put people into space. We could have Carnival Cruise line class ships if we wanted. 2001: A Space Odyssey would not have been all that far off if we hadn't lost our nerva. http://nuclearspace.com/
How about if they put an Intel chip in a low end computer, like the Mini, recompile the Apple-supplied applications so they run reasonably fast, and then emulate PPC for the 3rd party applications only. This would serve apple's purposes for something like the Mini since they figure that most buyers of the Mini wouldn't run 3rd party applications anyway.
I don't believe that Hillary is right wing. Her record before the recent presidential election suggests that she is rather left if not communist. I believe she will make herself out to be a centrist now in order to make it possible that she wins in 2008.
I get that Hillary Clinton is not a nice person. Socializing health care is not a right wing thing to do and aside from being married to Bill Clinton (who perjured himself in front of a grand jury and who pardoned all sorts of felons in his last days in office,) trying to socialize health care is the thing I remember first about her involvement with the US Federal Government.
Hillary seems to me to be at least as leftist as Kerry and Kennedy.
In my experience (USA working with OEMs doing high tech products) the cost of doing business with Indian Engineers is too high. They have a long (45 day) import delay for prototype hardware. The engineers who hire with companies I'm familiar with stay for training and then jump jobs. The communications difficulties (time shifted from USA offices) and language/cultural difficulties (different holidays, different work culture) make doing business awkward and less efficient than working with rural Americans (for instance).
Eventually Indian companies will run their own engineers and see some efficiencies that way. Then USA OEMs could see some serious competition. The only thing that would hold Indian OEMs back is internal costs of doing business, duties, taxes, crime, limitations on cooperation due to secrecy, government corruption, etc.. . Like here in the USA. The top dog world wide is going to be the country with the greatest efficiencies of doing business. Time will tell.
I wonder if he was trying to say that government agencies or systems that are not serious about security should be disconnected from the internet. This would actually make sense.
these E-Pass and SunPass transponders are slightly larger than a credit card
I love it. The e-pass transponder is more the size of a largish HD MP3 player. It is 1/2 of an inch thick and is bigger in both other dimentions than the iPod. This makes me wonder about other technical descriptions found in articles from RFID Journal.
You can't go out to put the garbage by the curb because doing so requires opening up the door. That would cause no end of trouble. It's sort of like living Florida. You have to first take many deep breaths, then put on a space suit, then close the inside door, wait for a while, open the outside door, shade your eyes against the bright sun, clip your safety line to the outside loop, drag yourself outside the door by another outside handle, drag the garbage after you, clip it to something, etc... really much worse than taking the trash out while walking the dog.
Greg's point was right. He said that even without the difference in speed, intercept angle makes a huge difference and that is true.
It will fall down (after all, they have to boost the station once in a while to keep it from doing just that), just not soon enough for the interest of users of the low earth region.
Need: GPS coordinates Compass direction Altitude Pitch (useful for shooting at a down or up angle) Heading direction in 3 axis (different than compass) (think rocket, boat or car nav system taking the pix) Elapsed time (since start of day/race/vaca) Sequence number (how many pix since start of day/race/vaca) Photos-this-camera (how many since camera was new) camera operational details as in previous posts and that are already in exif
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yes, I am. I shouldn't have mentioned the spouse vs hooker comment because it was much less thought out than the amateur vs professional definition.
I still think the difference between professionally written software and amateur written software is worth thinking about.
It may be worth pointing out that Professionals don't have to not love their work, or that Open Source code cannot be created by people who do not love it. I made neither point.
The difference between a professional and an amateur is that amateurs work for the love of it and professionals work because they get paid. Sort of the difference between a spouse and a hooker. Which side does MS fall on?
I'd vote for finishing school as soon as possible. The BS is worth something but after your first job the grades won't matter.
As a firmware engineer of 27 years I'm much more interested in:
the candidate's presence (i.e. how well they handle themselves),
the extra-curriculars (are they REALLY interested in the things they work on? Do they have a passion for anything? Open source projects are good, ham radio license or private pilot is better),
and for how complete their knowledge is of the things they say they know.
Education/Accedemia is NOT the same as the real world and showing that you can spend all sorts of time working for a university is NOT as impressive as showing me that you can work for me, AND for yourself.
If portable means not-on-MS OSs, then they absolutely had portable code in the past, AND present.
MSWord was available on MacOS years before it was available on MSWindows. For that matter MSBASIC was available on CP/M a whole decade before MSWindows and I'm not sure it was EVER released on MSWindows.
MS STILL makes products for the Macintosh and while none of those products is as nice as what they had before MSWindows came out they are still useful. MSWord for Mac is still my favorite word processor.
It seems to me that this is the year that HD has come of age. DVD players that finally play 1080, and Tivo is out. And to top that all you can now get a reasonably priced camcorder to record HD. Merry Christmas.
I could do entirely without a new video game or Microsoft software package.
One thing i wish Mr. Jobs would do is credit the prior-art. A thank-you to virtual desktops would have been nice, followed by the wiz-bang of zooming out to see all 4 (I haven't seen THAT done before).
What I really want to see is the ability to run two displays on the computer, but each with a separate log-in and separate key/mouse set. We could then claim our lab had 20 seats even though we only had 10 computers, each with 2 displays, 2 chairs, 2 keyboards, 2 mice. When the lab is sitting mostly empty (most of the time) each user would have 2 displays.
Tadd
Tivo hasn't yet forced us to watch commercials. I have heard several times over the past 4 years that they would be doing so but so far it has not happened.
My aunt has a webTV and she still uses it. It is a web and email terminal. It never needs technical support. It hasn't crashed or needed support in 4 years. The cost of ownership has been exactly equal to the monthly payments which is half the cost of the add-on for a cable modem. She's checks her email and replies within 24 hours.
For somebody who doesn't need to create content and is complacent with not having to watch movies, play music, or put up with pop-ups, virus plan renewals, etc... the WebTV is fine.
I wonder if the give away of 10 video ipods was calculated to be almost at the same time (but just before) the announcement they'd scheduled for Feb 28? Coincidence? I think not!
Rumor has it that Apple will announce new and improved video ipods with all conceivable features including factory chrome!
I had major issues with my 2000 TDI New Beetle. We had 3 disabling events in the 4th year of ownership. Mileage between 60K and 80K miles. Even though my other car (a 1994 Lexus ES300) has 240,000 miles on it and the New Beetle was totally paid off we felt compelled to dismiss the Beetle.
During its first 60,000 miles we were seeing about 750 miles per tank at about 45 miles per gallon. It was a wonderful thing. However, this does not overcome a basic unreliability of the car (coupled with the inability of the local VW service people in Orlando to deal with it). Consumers Reports showed the New Beetle as no longer having the expected reliability as they showed in 2000 when we first started considering it.
In addition to basic motor problems the car had cosmetic defects caused by normal wear -- namely the plastic covering on parts was disintegrating.
Your Mileage May Vary (I had to say that).
On another related subject.. what I really want is a hybrid car with a mode switch that lets me select how low I'm willing to let the battery go before it starts the gas motor. If I'm commuting the 7 miles from home to work and around town I'd like it to let the battery go down to 20% or so -- I'll plug it in when i get home, thank you. While I'm on the highway I'd prefer it to keep the charge a little higher. Perhaps under I-Don't-Know mode I'd like it to keep the battery fully charged. I test drove the Lexus RX400H and was dismayed to see that the gas motor ran all the time I was driving. What for?
This is not correct.
SpaceX is a different organization altogether.
I notice that you didn't say "PCs".
First things first
1. Choose the right computer. If you can't understand the tool after a minor amount of instruction it probably isn't the right tool. You aren't stupid (look what book you are reading.) The tool is supposed to be designed for you, the user. If it isn't, then it may be the wrong tool. Some tools require too much practice to be useful or safe. Consider the helicopter, dental drill, violin, surf board or a car. A car is harder to own and operate than public transportation. To some the trade-off for car ownership is worth it. Is it better? Some computers are easier to learn and possibly less versatile. It doesn't help you to have a computer that is too hard to use. What computers are easier to buy, operate, transport, etc? What do you give up by picking a computer that is easy? Will WebTV, Xbox or Macintosh serve your purpose? Can you afford to have professional support for your computing needs?
2. A computer is a device that processes. In order for a computer to be useful it must also interact. The ones that interact with humans generally have visual outputs and tactile inputs. it may be useful to know where the information that will be, is being, and has been processed is gotten from, used, and stored at. How the information is entered, used, and delivered is worth discussing.
3. Interactions between computers is what networking is all about.
etc...
I agree. There was so much work done on this in the 60s that took us so close to being able to put people into space. We could have Carnival Cruise line class ships if we wanted. 2001: A Space Odyssey would not have been all that far off if we hadn't lost our nerva.
http://nuclearspace.com/
with 256K of static RAM, a 32K Tarbel BASIC (staying away from Microsoft), and a decent LSI11 CPU.
Perhaps it is overkill. Nobody needs that much RAM.
Now we know why all the flying saucers have that bizarre humming noise! Outstanding!
How about if they put an Intel chip in a low end computer, like the Mini, recompile the Apple-supplied applications so they run reasonably fast, and then emulate PPC for the 3rd party applications only. This would serve apple's purposes for something like the Mini since they figure that most buyers of the Mini wouldn't run 3rd party applications anyway.
I don't believe that Hillary is right wing. Her record before the recent presidential election suggests that she is rather left if not communist. I believe she will make herself out to be a centrist now in order to make it possible that she wins in 2008.
I get that Hillary Clinton is not a nice person. Socializing health care is not a right wing thing to do and aside from being married to Bill Clinton (who perjured himself in front of a grand jury and who pardoned all sorts of felons in his last days in office,) trying to socialize health care is the thing I remember first about her involvement with the US Federal Government.
Hillary seems to me to be at least as leftist as Kerry and Kennedy.
In my experience (USA working with OEMs doing high tech products) the cost of doing business with Indian Engineers is too high. They have a long (45 day) import delay for prototype hardware. The engineers who hire with companies I'm familiar with stay for training and then jump jobs. The communications difficulties (time shifted from USA offices) and language/cultural difficulties (different holidays, different work culture) make doing business awkward and less efficient than working with rural Americans (for instance).
Eventually Indian companies will run their own engineers and see some efficiencies that way. Then USA OEMs could see some serious competition. The only thing that would hold Indian OEMs back is internal costs of doing business, duties, taxes, crime, limitations on cooperation due to secrecy, government corruption, etc.. . Like here in the USA. The top dog world wide is going to be the country with the greatest efficiencies of doing business. Time will tell.
I wonder if he was trying to say that government agencies or systems that are not serious about security should be disconnected from the internet. This would actually make sense.
You can't go out to put the garbage by the curb because doing so requires opening up the door. That would cause no end of trouble. It's sort of like living Florida. You have to first take many deep breaths, then put on a space suit, then close the inside door, wait for a while, open the outside door, shade your eyes against the bright sun, clip your safety line to the outside loop, drag yourself outside the door by another outside handle, drag the garbage after you, clip it to something, etc... really much worse than taking the trash out while walking the dog.
Greg's point was right. He said that even without the difference in speed, intercept angle makes a huge difference and that is true.
It will fall down (after all, they have to boost the station once in a while to keep it from doing just that), just not soon enough for the interest of users of the low earth region.
Who says that the warning was received? If it is via email, what if my spam filter makes it go away?
Do they have to deliver the warning with a "Process server" in order for it to count in court?
Need:
GPS coordinates
Compass direction
Altitude
Pitch (useful for shooting at a down or up angle)
Heading direction in 3 axis (different than compass) (think rocket, boat or car nav system taking the pix)
Elapsed time (since start of day/race/vaca)
Sequence number (how many pix since start of day/race/vaca)
Photos-this-camera (how many since camera was new)
camera operational details as in previous posts and that are already in exif