I pity the university you work at. I find that there is at least somewhat of a correlation between professor competence and whether or not they use a TeX variant. And, to be honest, I always looked down at professors who wrote things up in Word or another word processor. Their documents looked like crap and paled in comparison to things other professors wrote in TeX. When you're staring at documents for hours on end, it's nice when they are formatted well and look nice.
Are you really doing synchronous replication over a 100km distance with SRDF?
I think one of our longest legs is currently about 100 fiber km. That's pretty much the accepted limit for synchronous as far as we know. We've begun deploying Cisco Storage Services Modules to make use of Fibre Channel Write Acceleration. You may have heard of it before. We've begun using it in areas where there are applications with a lot of small block size writes. In addition, we're currently testing SRDF/A over FCIP to use from New York to London.
Thanks for the nick complement. I begun using this one when I forgot the password to my four digit ID:-)
I guess this setup could replace some people's need for a turnkey NAS solution. But your thinking it could replace SAN solutions shows you haven't looked into SAN too much. To start, there's a reason Fibre Channel is way more popular than iSCSI. The financial services company I work for has about 3 petabytes of SAN storage, and not a drop of it is iSCSI. Storage Area Networks are special built for a purpose. They typically have multiple fabrics for redundancy, special purpose hardware (we use Cisco Andiamo, i.e., the 9500 series), and a special purpose layer 2 protocol (Fibre Channel). iSCSI adds the overhead of TCP/IP. TCP does a really nice job of making sure you don't drop packets, i.e. layer 3 chunks of data, but at the expense of possibly dropping frames, i.e. layer 2 data. The nature of TCP just does this, as it basically ramps up data sending until it breaks, then slows down, rinse and repeat. This also has the effect of increasing latency. Sometimes this is okay, people use FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP), for example. But, sometimes it's not. Fibre Channel does not drop frames. In addition, Fibre Channel supports cool things like SRDF which can provide atomic writes in two physically separate arrays. (We have arrays 100 km away from each other that get written basically simultaneously and the host doesn't think its write is good until both arrays have written it.) So, like I said, this might be good for some uses, but not for any sort of significant SAN deployment.
Companies may cut down unnecessary IP usage, or buy/rent addresses from other companies with plenty to spare.
This is very difficult to do. Segmentation is a real problem. Companies who have large chunks of space might not have been smart with dividing it up. As such, they might not have large enough continguous blocks to give out. Smallest you can advertise with BGP is a/24. "Slash smalls" are filtered out. A lot of people would even find it silly to advertise anything less than a/20.
The people with IP4 addresses and software can keep what they're doing and not slow down... Only when the final IP4v2 addresses are implemented will people have to rewrite software.
You mean like, what will happen with IPv6? IPv4 addresses are IPv6 addresses. As others have *obviously* said, no sense fixing the problem partially when it requires just as much work as fixing it well.
So what? So they let me make a "managed copy" of a disc. What good does that do when the "managed copy" is so locked down and crippled by DRM that only a special player will play it?
This reminds me so much of SCMS (or SCuMS as it was affectionately known) that it's somewhat laughable. All SCMS managed to do was make people not buy standalone audio cd burners and make copying DATs a bit of a hassle in some cases. They'll never get it.
8 - I will own a house within 15 years, easily, living inside of my income, investing the rest
If you plan on buying a house, then you really should get a credit card. In fact, you should have got one the day you turned 18. 15% of your FICO score is based on credit history. Having a credit card is basically the only way to do it. Use it for your misc. purchases and pay it off every month. It also saves you heartache in case you have to dispute a charge, your money is not tied up somewhere (as is what happens often when you dispute check card charges).
Oh, and there's a good chance you'll burn out at some point. Don't worry, most engineers do. It'll probably be junior year. You'll be trying to learn Laplace transforms and Fourier transforms and z transforms and trying to work 30 hours a week and at some point something will just snap. You may or may not rebound. Most at least slide by. But as someone who had a fair share of both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering curriculum in addition to way more math than I should have taken, electrical engineering is no walk in the park at a good school, so just try to keep your head above water. If that means not working and having to take some loans out, do it. In the long run, a small loan now will pay off big time.
Milton Friedman was probably the biggest free market economist in the world. You know what he had to say on this issue?
The issue is patents. The issue is a government-granted monopoly and whether that, how extensively the rights that are granted for that purpose extend. The real issue is not really re-importation. The real issue in my opinion is the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA in the United States has followed policy, which means that it costs roughly $800 million to bring a single new drug entity to the market. And the question is where is that $800 million going to come from? The answer that we have given, whether the right answer or the wrong answer, the answer we have given is that it's going to come by giving the producer of the drug a patent, a monopoly privilege to sell that drug, to exclude others from the sale of that drug.
And the question is, are you going to enforce that exclusion? The only way in which that $800 million can be raised is by charging very high prices to some people. Now, the question is given that you're charging those high prices to some people, is it okay to charge low prices to some people? This is a standard case of a monopoly which engages in price discrimination as a way of maximizing its income. It charges high prices where the elasticity of demand is low, it charges low prices where the elasticity of demand is relatively high to the citizens of other countries.
[...]
But the purpose of the law, the purpose of the patent was to enable the patent owner to make enough money to pay for the cost of producing the drug. And that's not going to be possible unless you have price discrimination. And price discrimination adds to human welfare, it permits a larger number of people around the world to have the drug than it could otherwise do so. (from http://www.techcentralstation.com/020204D.html)
I think the key statement is [Price discrimination] permits a larger number of people around the world to have the drug than it could otherwise do so.
Emusic was great when it was $15/month for unlimited downloads. I bought tons and tons of Jazz that way. That is, until they changed the terms of my subscription without telling me. Oh, and when I asked for a refund for the month because I hit a new download limit, they wouldn't give it to me. Fortunately American Express smacked them down and got my money back.
The point is that with RPN you're checking as you go. If you're typing into a calculator, why not try to parse it while you type instead of transcribing from paper character for character? And yes, I would almost guarantee I'm quicker than most.
A person who has spent time with an HP will run rings around someone with a TI on almost any calculations
It's been a few years, but I remember in things like physics labs where you have to do a lot of number crunching, all of my lab partners would always plug along dutifully on their TIs while I would have done the calculation twice (once and then a double check) using RPN on my 48GX. I don't use a calculator much anymore, as MATLAB tends to be quicker for the things I need to do, but whatever HP lacks in computational power, it makes up for in efficient syntax.
Why would one want such a calculator when you can have a PDA?
Because while you are recalibrating your digitizer and taking out your stylus to tap emulated keys, I will have already entered the RPN statement twice, once to run it and again to double check it.
they still use multiple keys for unlocking the content, effectively reducing the number of bits by who knows how many. It's possible that once enough keys are found, a smart brute-force of the keyspace could be executed that would find all the keys.
It's simply unlikely. AES' 128 bits is too much, and the algorithm has been shown to be too secure at present. It's a highly critiqued algorithm that has been proven not highly vulerable to known techniques of cryptanalysis. AES has a highly mathematic structure (being based on operations on GF(8)) that makes it both easy to test theoretical attacks on as well as provide credibility to its claims of strength.
Snobby academics are not in high demand. If you want to get a job out of college you need both academics and practical experience.
I'm not one. I'm an engineer (and not even a software engineer). But I hate that people in the field don't know the difference between Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Even if your degree sounds multi-purpose, it's likely you focused in one area.
But at the end of the day, if you can't develop software you're not a very useful computer scientist (aside from working at the uni).
Why? Computer Science does not need to have anything to do with software development. That's what Software Engineering is. I'll leave you with a quote.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --Edsger Dijkstra
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I pity the university you work at. I find that there is at least somewhat of a correlation between professor competence and whether or not they use a TeX variant. And, to be honest, I always looked down at professors who wrote things up in Word or another word processor. Their documents looked like crap and paled in comparison to things other professors wrote in TeX. When you're staring at documents for hours on end, it's nice when they are formatted well and look nice.
Are you really doing synchronous replication over a 100km distance with SRDF?
:-)
I think one of our longest legs is currently about 100 fiber km. That's pretty much the accepted limit for synchronous as far as we know. We've begun deploying Cisco Storage Services Modules to make use of Fibre Channel Write Acceleration. You may have heard of it before. We've begun using it in areas where there are applications with a lot of small block size writes. In addition, we're currently testing SRDF/A over FCIP to use from New York to London.
Thanks for the nick complement. I begun using this one when I forgot the password to my four digit ID
I guess this setup could replace some people's need for a turnkey NAS solution. But your thinking it could replace SAN solutions shows you haven't looked into SAN too much. To start, there's a reason Fibre Channel is way more popular than iSCSI. The financial services company I work for has about 3 petabytes of SAN storage, and not a drop of it is iSCSI. Storage Area Networks are special built for a purpose. They typically have multiple fabrics for redundancy, special purpose hardware (we use Cisco Andiamo, i.e., the 9500 series), and a special purpose layer 2 protocol (Fibre Channel). iSCSI adds the overhead of TCP/IP. TCP does a really nice job of making sure you don't drop packets, i.e. layer 3 chunks of data, but at the expense of possibly dropping frames, i.e. layer 2 data. The nature of TCP just does this, as it basically ramps up data sending until it breaks, then slows down, rinse and repeat. This also has the effect of increasing latency. Sometimes this is okay, people use FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP), for example. But, sometimes it's not. Fibre Channel does not drop frames. In addition, Fibre Channel supports cool things like SRDF which can provide atomic writes in two physically separate arrays. (We have arrays 100 km away from each other that get written basically simultaneously and the host doesn't think its write is good until both arrays have written it.) So, like I said, this might be good for some uses, but not for any sort of significant SAN deployment.
Then what?
Then what, what?
Toll and tax dollars paid for that camera. My tolls and taxes, in fact. I don't want the video taken down.
Companies may cut down unnecessary IP usage, or buy/rent addresses from other companies with plenty to spare.
/24. "Slash smalls" are filtered out. A lot of people would even find it silly to advertise anything less than a /20.
This is very difficult to do. Segmentation is a real problem. Companies who have large chunks of space might not have been smart with dividing it up. As such, they might not have large enough continguous blocks to give out. Smallest you can advertise with BGP is a
It's private space, they can use the full 32 bits. Which comes out to over 4 Billion.
That works until they need Internet access. Then it breaks. Miserably.
The people with IP4 addresses and software can keep what they're doing and not slow down... Only when the final IP4v2 addresses are implemented will people have to rewrite software.
You mean like, what will happen with IPv6? IPv4 addresses are IPv6 addresses. As others have *obviously* said, no sense fixing the problem partially when it requires just as much work as fixing it well.
So what? So they let me make a "managed copy" of a disc. What good does that do when the "managed copy" is so locked down and crippled by DRM that only a special player will play it?
This reminds me so much of SCMS (or SCuMS as it was affectionately known) that it's somewhat laughable. All SCMS managed to do was make people not buy standalone audio cd burners and make copying DATs a bit of a hassle in some cases. They'll never get it.
8 - I will own a house within 15 years, easily, living inside of my income, investing the rest
If you plan on buying a house, then you really should get a credit card. In fact, you should have got one the day you turned 18. 15% of your FICO score is based on credit history. Having a credit card is basically the only way to do it. Use it for your misc. purchases and pay it off every month. It also saves you heartache in case you have to dispute a charge, your money is not tied up somewhere (as is what happens often when you dispute check card charges).
Oh, and there's a good chance you'll burn out at some point. Don't worry, most engineers do. It'll probably be junior year. You'll be trying to learn Laplace transforms and Fourier transforms and z transforms and trying to work 30 hours a week and at some point something will just snap. You may or may not rebound. Most at least slide by. But as someone who had a fair share of both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering curriculum in addition to way more math than I should have taken, electrical engineering is no walk in the park at a good school, so just try to keep your head above water. If that means not working and having to take some loans out, do it. In the long run, a small loan now will pay off big time.
The IEEE has around 360.000 members - it's a tiny fraction of the industry.
And to hell with 802.11 and 802.3 and 802.1, those things suck. That'll work well: "Well, Cisco, we decided to frame it this way..."
There's no rigid spreadsheet definition in ODF. OOXML has it. See here.
Milton Friedman was probably the biggest free market economist in the world. You know what he had to say on this issue?
The issue is patents. The issue is a government-granted monopoly and whether that, how extensively the rights that are granted for that purpose extend. The real issue is not really re-importation. The real issue in my opinion is the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA in the United States has followed policy, which means that it costs roughly $800 million to bring a single new drug entity to the market. And the question is where is that $800 million going to come from? The answer that we have given, whether the right answer or the wrong answer, the answer we have given is that it's going to come by giving the producer of the drug a patent, a monopoly privilege to sell that drug, to exclude others from the sale of that drug.
And the question is, are you going to enforce that exclusion? The only way in which that $800 million can be raised is by charging very high prices to some people. Now, the question is given that you're charging those high prices to some people, is it okay to charge low prices to some people? This is a standard case of a monopoly which engages in price discrimination as a way of maximizing its income. It charges high prices where the elasticity of demand is low, it charges low prices where the elasticity of demand is relatively high to the citizens of other countries.
[...]
But the purpose of the law, the purpose of the patent was to enable the patent owner to make enough money to pay for the cost of producing the drug. And that's not going to be possible unless you have price discrimination. And price discrimination adds to human welfare, it permits a larger number of people around the world to have the drug than it could otherwise do so. (from http://www.techcentralstation.com/020204D.html)
I think the key statement is [Price discrimination] permits a larger number of people around the world to have the drug than it could otherwise do so.
Them: "Yeah, we figured. You probably also think HOAs are usurping your god-given right to paint your house pink, eh?"
And yes, I do think that arbitrary HOA rules are completely wrong and shouldn't be allowed.
Emusic was great when it was $15/month for unlimited downloads. I bought tons and tons of Jazz that way. That is, until they changed the terms of my subscription without telling me. Oh, and when I asked for a refund for the month because I hit a new download limit, they wouldn't give it to me. Fortunately American Express smacked them down and got my money back.
I learnt the knowledge to answer the UK test school at 14. I have not idea how to start the Chinese test.
*Shrug* I learned the stuff for the Chinese test at 14 in 9th grade geometry class in a US public high school. Your mileage may vary.
I heard him on Leo Laporte's FLOSS Weekly podcast and was very impressed with his knowledge and was happy the FSF had such good leadership.
I HAVE spent 2000+ hours using Adobe InDesign in the past year, and I do use optical kerning on almost every body of text I deal with.
Ah, which is why I'm so happy I use TeX. Knuth et al. really perfected computerized kerning. Visit here for some examples of the beauty of TeX.
Anything multiplied by 0 is 0!
So n * 0 = 1?
Just kidding, playing on the fact that 0! = 1.
The point is that with RPN you're checking as you go. If you're typing into a calculator, why not try to parse it while you type instead of transcribing from paper character for character? And yes, I would almost guarantee I'm quicker than most.
A person who has spent time with an HP will run rings around someone with a TI on almost any calculations
It's been a few years, but I remember in things like physics labs where you have to do a lot of number crunching, all of my lab partners would always plug along dutifully on their TIs while I would have done the calculation twice (once and then a double check) using RPN on my 48GX. I don't use a calculator much anymore, as MATLAB tends to be quicker for the things I need to do, but whatever HP lacks in computational power, it makes up for in efficient syntax.
Why would one want such a calculator when you can have a PDA?
Because while you are recalibrating your digitizer and taking out your stylus to tap emulated keys, I will have already entered the RPN statement twice, once to run it and again to double check it.
they still use multiple keys for unlocking the content, effectively reducing the number of bits by who knows how many. It's possible that once enough keys are found, a smart brute-force of the keyspace could be executed that would find all the keys.
It's simply unlikely. AES' 128 bits is too much, and the algorithm has been shown to be too secure at present. It's a highly critiqued algorithm that has been proven not highly vulerable to known techniques of cryptanalysis. AES has a highly mathematic structure (being based on operations on GF(8)) that makes it both easy to test theoretical attacks on as well as provide credibility to its claims of strength.
Does this mean they'll work on any music player that supports AAC? Does this mean I don't need an iPod to play them on someplace other than my PC?
Uhh, yes. That's the idea.
Snobby academics are not in high demand. If you want to get a job out of college you need both academics and practical experience.
I'm not one. I'm an engineer (and not even a software engineer). But I hate that people in the field don't know the difference between Computer Science and Software Engineering.
Even if your degree sounds multi-purpose, it's likely you focused in one area.
But at the end of the day, if you can't develop software you're not a very useful computer scientist (aside from working at the uni).
Why? Computer Science does not need to have anything to do with software development. That's what Software Engineering is. I'll leave you with a quote.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --Edsger Dijkstra