First of all you can't compair "US Programs" vs "Non-US Programs" in a general way. you have to look at specific departments at specific schools. If University X has a good program in what you are interested in start thinking about it.
But before you go remember these things, unless you go to an english speaking area most programs are in the local language. How well do you speek it? To take a masters level class in Computer Science you will need to speek it quite well.
Costs, not just tuition, but also things like airfare back to the USA to visit people and so on.
Quility of Life, I have lived in the USA, England and now Israel, life is different, in some ways better in some ways worse but different, think about how it will affect your lifestyle.
Now if you decide that going outside the USA is for you, go for it, there are some very good universities in many places around the world (and some very bad ones)
The problem with the Rutan SS1 Design (Which I like btw) is that it is sub orbital. It may get the altitude but it does not have the velocity to get itself into orbit.
That being said I would not at all be suprised of Burt Rutan had a fully orbital version on the drawing board somewhere that he is not going to talk about for a while.
Well there are more people using windows and more books about it than about Linux. But it can easily be cheaper. If it everything you need is in the box for linux or windows linux should be cheaper. But if you have to develop some custom application software (and many companies do have to do that) it may well cost you more to develop it on linux than on windows.
If it does cost more to develop custom applications on linux than windows, then we as the linux comunity have to get better at building the kinds of tools our users need.
Part of the reason spam is different from most free speech issues is that spam imposes a cost on people other than the speaker. If you want to promote whatever your cause is you can go buy ads in the paper or whatever and its fine as you are paying the bills.
But if you spam me you (not you peronally) take up my resources that are not yours to dispose of. If my ISP has to buy a bigger mail server to deal with the spam that is real money they have to spend on your spam. If you want to put porn up on your website as long as you pay for the bandwidth etc I don't see a problem as such.
I don't think you can pull your code from linux, you can stop working on it.
But lets be honest this is not a military use of linux, its putting a board into an empty ammo box. Its no different than putting a PC motherboard into any other kind of strange box.
Personally I would like to see a very small and cheap linux server something about the size ofa large book, that I can drop onto my lan and use as a development database platform.
One other thing linux needs is a pool of talented people who know the applications. If you need someone to make up power point slides for you, call a temp agency and they will send someone over who knows powerpoint. We need to get linux to the point where if you need a guru you can pick up the phone and one will be over. Systems guru or applications guru.
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I have used a bunch, Altavista was tops for a while. Before that I think I used Yahoo and GNN from O'Reilly.
Before that I remember using Archie to search FTP sites and Veronica on Gopher. I remember when I first got onto the net ('91) and a few months later reading about archie and thinking how cool it was that you could search for things.
Problem is we are good at memorizing paterns. And patterns are easy to guess. When Richard Feynman tried to crack the safes at Las Almos he found that a very large number of them were set to 31 41 59 or 27 18 28 (pi and e). We are good at memorizing things because we expect to find paterns, which is makes it easy to attach the password.
Now if you are cleaver you can change things just enough, or say put in letters of two langages. But most people just pick something stupid and go with it.
I will admit to having a throw away password, that I use when I need a password for something I don't care about.
I believe the Quote was from Sir Winston Churchill who said that if the Nazis were to invade hell he would put in a good word for the devil on the floor of the house (of commons).
I wasn't able to find the exact quote on google. My search turned up to much anti-semetic crap for me to want search more carefully.
True, terrorism can happen anywhere. My point was not to say that it can't but things must be put in proper context. In a midsized american city your should spend more of your time thinking about fire, weather or power issues than terrorism.
OK if your building burns down it probably won't be national news, but its very relivant to *YOU* and your customers etc.
Well the current setup is very bad for investment. First of all there is enough capasity for 95% of the year, which means that anything new you build is only going to get used on a minimal basis at first. But still has to be paid for year round.
Second in the Area hit by the blackout you have a regulatory patchwork mess. You have two sets of federal regulations (USA + Canada) Plus a large number of state and provintial regulations.
If some power company were to go to wall st to raise money to build a power plant (Which they would do, they don't have that kind of cash on hand). Its not exactly a settting that would make people want to drop huge sums of money on it.
Plus in many cases its not at all clear who is responable for what. Again not something to make investors happy.
Well a solid disaster plan would (if you are big enough to afford it) have a second location far away. If you had a location in California and a second say in Boston you would be ok. Ofcourse that costs a lot of money and many small to mid sized firms could not afford it in the first place.
But one thing with disaster recovery is you need to figure out what is and is not a disaster you should worry about. I live in Jerusalem, terorism is something very real here but mostly hits soft targets. On the other hand major blizards are a non issue. In Boston we worried about Nor'easters and occationaly a huracane. If you live in Utica NY you probalby don't have to worry to much about terrorism. Fire can happen anywhere.
I don't know how you figure out what is or is not a probable event in your location. I suppose you talk to the insurance folks they have spent a lot of time figuring this out.
The other question is how much recovory can you afford? If your disaster recovory plans puts your company into chapter 11 it was not a very good plan.
I like saying "Utica"
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Because they would get creamed on the first amedment issues. If you take a first rank Professor at a well known university presenting an academic paper at a respected confrence. Thats about as protected as speach can get. And a univeristy like Technion can hire good laywers.
A guy that they can protray as a two bit hacker (right or wrong) can be painted in a very different light. But the first amendment types would have a field day if they arrested him. Of course he may decide just not to go the the USA and bypass the whole problem. But if you are going to have a test case in the courts this would be a good one.
Re:How does this affect US/Israel relations?
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Check your facts, Israel is a small country enagaged in a war for our very survival. 2 weeks ago in the middle of a so called "cease fire" a palistinian man dressed up as a religous Jew and got onto the Jerusalem #2 bus, filled with families and blew it up. He killed 21 people including 6 children and put over a hundred into the hopital. I live in Jerusalem, and I worry everytime I get onto a bus.
Israel does not target civilians, it targets the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who are engaged in attempts to murder as many Jews as posible. Yes they often life in populated areas, and yes when we attack them sometimes civilians get hurt or killed.
You should note that the Geneva Conventions specifily say you can not hide parties to a war in a civilian population to protect them. And if you do it is on your head the damage caused.
Israel has risked its very existance for a so called pease, and for our trouble have had to deal with a constant stream of morters and bombs falling on our population centers.
If Arafat had wanted peace it has been offered to him a number of times, and he has rejected it every time. The Palistinian schools teach hate, and most of the Arabs don't even recognise that there is a Jewish state here, prefering to refer to us as the "Zionist Entity".
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They are all infact at the Technion, Israel's high Tech-engineering school in Haifa. The DMCA is a US law, which applies to people in the USA. It has absolutly no effect on people outside the USA.
Now in theory if they travel to the USA they could have a problem, and many Israelis do travel to the USA for one reason or another, but I don't think the US goverment will arrest an Israeli professor for publishing a paper.
The major problem is that when you try to mix two very different things (IE cars and boats) you end up with something that costs a lot does both things badly.
The things it takes to make something a good car, and the things you have to do to make a good boat are very different, so its not supprising that this thing costs a fortune and is probably not all that useful.
IBM is a buisness, its their job to sell stuff. The stuff may be hardware or it may be consulting, but they are going to do their best to sell it.
Most people here have probably put together a cheap linux box out of spare parts and the like, such a box is great for a lot of uses, but do you want to trust your corpate servers to it? I don't. There are different types of things for different reasons. IBM makes it their goal to sell the high end high bandwidth high reliabilty stuff, and yes its high price but if you need it you probably can afford it.
Well it depends on what the software is and what it does. OK sure a spreadsheet should be easy to use and not require much support. Unless you are talking about custom macros or whatever. But say a large scale database will need support and custom work.
The thing is that it is posible to get a company to spend money to improve a piece of infrastructre like the linux kernel or mysql if they need that for other things. But only once the thing is getting to the point where it is basicly usable. While DEC had 2-3 people working on linux way back when no major players put big money into linux until it was rather robust already.
As for support cygnus did a lot of support for GCC, mostly in the form of ports and optimization for specific chips and so on. And made good money doing it.
he's 91 years old, and not real mobile these days. When he was 75 he could do a lot some time in his 80's he just had to stop doing work with them. On the other hand he has a sister who is 95 and still doing rather well.
As much as I dislike MS windows (I use an Ibook these days) I do not want my college telling me what OS I should use. I would be annoyed if they told me I must use Windows, and I would be annoyed if they told me I must use Linux (or a mac). i happen to be using an iBook for a number of good reasons but someone else may decide that XP has what they need. They may be wrong but its their computer and I see no reason to dictate to them.
It should be pointed out that Einstein in addition to helping at the start of QM (the photoelectric effect and brownian motion) also did some major work in QM later on. Most of that work was to try and poke holes in the theory. Wherever he was able to the QM folks were able to patch them back up.
I will admit to not understaning much of the term of QM I had to take in my physics major
Not about the technical or design parts of it, but about the Business parts of it. Assuming you are in the USA look up the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov?) and go threw everything they have.
Another great resource is SCORE, which is the service corp of retired executives. My Grandfather used to work with them before he got too old. Its a lot of older folks who would love a chance to mentor someone young.
Your right Hurd is not like linux, Hurd has neat ideas. Linux has solid working code. The truth of the matter is from the 1.0 point a OS kernel takes 5-8 years (or more) to get really solid. Linux has had a large team with good management (linus et al) working on it for 12 years now.
Hurd may have ideas that Linux and BSD don't but when will it be ready to use in a mission critical setting? The truth of the matter is that the developers who know kernels well are doing linux and BSD.
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First of all you can't compair "US Programs" vs "Non-US Programs" in a general way. you have to look at specific departments at specific schools. If University X has a good program in what you are interested in start thinking about it.
But before you go remember these things, unless you go to an english speaking area most programs are in the local language. How well do you speek it? To take a masters level class in Computer Science you will need to speek it quite well.
Costs, not just tuition, but also things like airfare back to the USA to visit people and so on.
Quility of Life, I have lived in the USA, England and now Israel, life is different, in some ways better in some ways worse but different, think about how it will affect your lifestyle.
Now if you decide that going outside the USA is for you, go for it, there are some very good universities in many places around the world (and some very bad ones)
The problem with the Rutan SS1 Design (Which I like btw) is that it is sub orbital. It may get the altitude but it does not have the velocity to get itself into orbit.
That being said I would not at all be suprised of Burt Rutan had a fully orbital version on the drawing board somewhere that he is not going to talk about for a while.
I am wondering why they are suing a kid living in city housing. It not like she has any money. Her parents might have some, but she doesn't.
Maybe the can take a cut of the income from her paper-route.
Well there are more people using windows and more books about it than about Linux. But it can easily be cheaper. If it everything you need is in the box for linux or windows linux should be cheaper. But if you have to develop some custom application software (and many companies do have to do that) it may well cost you more to develop it on linux than on windows.
If it does cost more to develop custom applications on linux than windows, then we as the linux comunity have to get better at building the kinds of tools our users need.
Part of the reason spam is different from most free speech issues is that spam imposes a cost on people other than the speaker. If you want to promote whatever your cause is you can go buy ads in the paper or whatever and its fine as you are paying the bills.
But if you spam me you (not you peronally) take up my resources that are not yours to dispose of. If my ISP has to buy a bigger mail server to deal with the spam that is real money they have to spend on your spam. If you want to put porn up on your website as long as you pay for the bandwidth etc I don't see a problem as such.
I don't think you can pull your code from linux, you can stop working on it.
But lets be honest this is not a military use of linux, its putting a board into an empty ammo box. Its no different than putting a PC motherboard into any other kind of strange box.
Personally I would like to see a very small and cheap linux server something about the size ofa large book, that I can drop onto my lan and use as a development database platform.
One other thing linux needs is a pool of talented people who know the applications. If you need someone to make up power point slides for you, call a temp agency and they will send someone over who knows powerpoint. We need to get linux to the point where if you need a guru you can pick up the phone and one will be over. Systems guru or applications guru.
I have used a bunch, Altavista was tops for a while. Before that I think I used Yahoo and GNN from O'Reilly.
Before that I remember using Archie to search FTP sites and Veronica on Gopher. I remember when I first got onto the net ('91) and a few months later reading about archie and thinking how cool it was that you could search for things.
Archie was cool in its day.
Problem is we are good at memorizing paterns. And patterns are easy to guess. When Richard Feynman tried to crack the safes at Las Almos he found that a very large number of them were set to 31 41 59 or 27 18 28 (pi and e). We are good at memorizing things because we expect to find paterns, which is makes it easy to attach the password.
Now if you are cleaver you can change things just enough, or say put in letters of two langages. But most people just pick something stupid and go with it.
I will admit to having a throw away password, that I use when I need a password for something I don't care about.
I believe the Quote was from Sir Winston Churchill who said that if the Nazis were to invade hell he would put in a good word for the devil on the floor of the house (of commons).
I wasn't able to find the exact quote on google. My search turned up to much anti-semetic crap for me to want search more carefully.
True, terrorism can happen anywhere. My point was not to say that it can't but things must be put in proper context. In a midsized american city your should spend more of your time thinking about fire, weather or power issues than terrorism.
OK if your building burns down it probably won't be national news, but its very relivant to *YOU* and your customers etc.
Well the current setup is very bad for investment. First of all there is enough capasity for 95% of the year, which means that anything new you build is only going to get used on a minimal basis at first. But still has to be paid for year round.
Second in the Area hit by the blackout you have a regulatory patchwork mess. You have two sets of federal regulations (USA + Canada) Plus a large number of state and provintial regulations.
If some power company were to go to wall st to raise money to build a power plant (Which they would do, they don't have that kind of cash on hand). Its not exactly a settting that would make people want to drop huge sums of money on it.
Plus in many cases its not at all clear who is responable for what. Again not something to make investors happy.
Well a solid disaster plan would (if you are big enough to afford it) have a second location far away. If you had a location in California and a second say in Boston you would be ok. Ofcourse that costs a lot of money and many small to mid sized firms could not afford it in the first place.
But one thing with disaster recovery is you need to figure out what is and is not a disaster you should worry about. I live in Jerusalem, terorism is something very real here but mostly hits soft targets. On the other hand major blizards are a non issue. In Boston we worried about Nor'easters and occationaly a huracane. If you live in Utica NY you probalby don't have to worry to much about terrorism. Fire can happen anywhere.
I don't know how you figure out what is or is not a probable event in your location. I suppose you talk to the insurance folks they have spent a lot of time figuring this out.
The other question is how much recovory can you afford? If your disaster recovory plans puts your company into chapter 11 it was not a very good plan.
I like saying "Utica"
Because they would get creamed on the first amedment issues. If you take a first rank Professor at a well known university presenting an academic paper at a respected confrence. Thats about as protected as speach can get. And a univeristy like Technion can hire good laywers.
A guy that they can protray as a two bit hacker (right or wrong) can be painted in a very different light. But the first amendment types would have a field day if they arrested him. Of course he may decide just not to go the the USA and bypass the whole problem. But if you are going to have a test case in the courts this would be a good one.
Check your facts, Israel is a small country enagaged in a war for our very survival. 2 weeks ago in the middle of a so called "cease fire" a palistinian man dressed up as a religous Jew and got onto the Jerusalem #2 bus, filled with families and blew it up. He killed 21 people including 6 children and put over a hundred into the hopital. I live in Jerusalem, and I worry everytime I get onto a bus.
Israel does not target civilians, it targets the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad who are engaged in attempts to murder as many Jews as posible. Yes they often life in populated areas, and yes when we attack them sometimes civilians get hurt or killed.
You should note that the Geneva Conventions specifily say you can not hide parties to a war in a civilian population to protect them. And if you do it is on your head the damage caused.
Israel has risked its very existance for a so called pease, and for our trouble have had to deal with a constant stream of morters and bombs falling on our population centers.
If Arafat had wanted peace it has been offered to him a number of times, and he has rejected it every time. The Palistinian schools teach hate, and most of the Arabs don't even recognise that there is a Jewish state here, prefering to refer to us as the "Zionist Entity".
They are all infact at the Technion, Israel's high Tech-engineering school in Haifa. The DMCA is a US law, which applies to people in the USA. It has absolutly no effect on people outside the USA.
Now in theory if they travel to the USA they could have a problem, and many Israelis do travel to the USA for one reason or another, but I don't think the US goverment will arrest an Israeli professor for publishing a paper.
The major problem is that when you try to mix two very different things (IE cars and boats) you end up with something that costs a lot does both things badly.
The things it takes to make something a good car, and the things you have to do to make a good boat are very different, so its not supprising that this thing costs a fortune and is probably not all that useful.
But it is an interesting design
I'm just guessing here, but I would bet it is a function of the mapping from the original data to much lower resolution they posted on the web.
If you look at the high res image much of that goes away. Also note this is a camera working at the very limits of what people can design.
IBM is a buisness, its their job to sell stuff. The stuff may be hardware or it may be consulting, but they are going to do their best to sell it.
Most people here have probably put together a cheap linux box out of spare parts and the like, such a box is great for a lot of uses, but do you want to trust your corpate servers to it? I don't. There are different types of things for different reasons. IBM makes it their goal to sell the high end high bandwidth high reliabilty stuff, and yes its high price but if you need it you probably can afford it.
Well it depends on what the software is and what it does. OK sure a spreadsheet should be easy to use and not require much support. Unless you are talking about custom macros or whatever. But say a large scale database will need support and custom work.
The thing is that it is posible to get a company to spend money to improve a piece of infrastructre like the linux kernel or mysql if they need that for other things. But only once the thing is getting to the point where it is basicly usable. While DEC had 2-3 people working on linux way back when no major players put big money into linux until it was rather robust already.
As for support cygnus did a lot of support for GCC, mostly in the form of ports and optimization for specific chips and so on. And made good money doing it.
he's 91 years old, and not real mobile these days. When he was 75 he could do a lot some time in his 80's he just had to stop doing work with them. On the other hand he has a sister who is 95 and still doing rather well.
As much as I dislike MS windows (I use an Ibook these days) I do not want my college telling me what OS I should use. I would be annoyed if they told me I must use Windows, and I would be annoyed if they told me I must use Linux (or a mac). i happen to be using an iBook for a number of good reasons but someone else may decide that XP has what they need. They may be wrong but its their computer and I see no reason to dictate to them.
It should be pointed out that Einstein in addition to helping at the start of QM (the photoelectric effect and brownian motion) also did some major work in QM later on. Most of that work was to try and poke holes in the theory. Wherever he was able to the QM folks were able to patch them back up.
I will admit to not understaning much of the term of QM I had to take in my physics major
Not about the technical or design parts of it, but about the Business parts of it. Assuming you are in the USA look up the Small Business Administration (www.sba.gov?) and go threw everything they have.
Another great resource is SCORE, which is the service corp of retired executives. My Grandfather used to work with them before he got too old. Its a lot of older folks who would love a chance to mentor someone young.
Oh and find a decent accountant.
Your right Hurd is not like linux, Hurd has neat ideas. Linux has solid working code. The truth of the matter is from the 1.0 point a OS kernel takes 5-8 years (or more) to get really solid. Linux has had a large team with good management (linus et al) working on it for 12 years now.
Hurd may have ideas that Linux and BSD don't but when will it be ready to use in a mission critical setting? The truth of the matter is that the developers who know kernels well are doing linux and BSD.