In the 1970s dissolved CO2 that was deposited in lake Malawi by volcanic activity was released by a landslide that occurred during a heavy rainstorm. The effect was like shaking up a soda can. A huge amount of CO2 was released, lake levels dropped several *feet* and the released CO2 displaced the O2 around the lake (because it is heavier than O2 and the lake is in a depression). The effect was that hundreds of people who lived around the lake died because of lack of O2.
Got to be aware of the unintended consequences of such actions. If the CO2 gets released it may not have global effect, but it can have an extremely serious local effect.
The Hasboro (who bought AV) has a computer version of Diplomacy which is terrible. But there are others out there who have filled the void. Check out the web judge at www.redscape.com.
Universal access to free (or low cost) public records and publically produced data is a fabulous part of the US legal system that is practically unique in the world in its scope and openness. In 1977 when the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it really changed everything. Government was by and for the people it served. That law made government produced and maintained data open to just about anyone that asked. Putting those data on the internet just empowers citizens more.
There are things about individuals that are and should be public record. Who owns that piece of land? He does, and he's behind on his taxes. Is this guy a deadbeat dad behind on his child support? How much does this public employee earn?
The problem is, not that these data are available, but that they are occasionally used to cause individuals problems. To close access to them would be like shutting down the internet because some people get cracked.
If you are the CTO you probably hired most of the people about which you are concerned. What did you tell them when you hired them? Think about the things you said and the way you represented the company's situation when you are evaluating your decision. You can always get another job, but your integrity is irreplaceable.
In my opinion, you should also consider the nationality of the people you hired. If you hired people on work visas, if they lose their jobs they will most likely be deported and lose their homes.
Where I work, which has undergone recent downsizing, I gentleman I know is a Tiawanese national. His wife is a Chinese national. Their daughter is an American citizen. If he were to lose his job, he would have to go back to Taiwan and his wife would have to go back to China. Therefore, if he were to lose his job he would also lose his family!
Only the most heartless of us would not consider the situations of our friends and collegues when we make these very important decisions. Just by asking this question it is clear that you recognize the magnitude of your decision.
Just make sure you can look at yourself in the mirror and know that you did the right thing.
The market cap for Red Hat is now about $5 bil. The market cap for SGI is now about $2 bil. In theory, inflated stock prices like this will even out. After all which one would you rather own?
Web agents I think are not usually considered intelligent agents.
We use intelligent agents in modeling problems and they simulate people. They are programmed with relatively simple rules and they interact with each other and sometimes learn (which would make them adaptive intelligent agents).
You are using what might be the only serious application written in Objective C. It is not a gap in your education that you never used Objective C before.
If Swarm were ported to C++ and were allowed some kind of i-o with a database it might actually become an application that people used to solve real problems using real data. Until that time it will remain a strictly "academic" application.
I was just at the NT rollout here in NYC and I asked the Linux question.
According to the SGI people there: There will be no SGI supported version of Linux anytime in the near future. If there is to be one someone's got to hack one together.
It's not as simple as it might seem as there is no BIOS on these machines as they boot from ROM. There may also be problems fully optimizing Linux for the machines as they have this unified memory structure. There will also be other issues that come up as SGI Linux is developed.
Little or no software developed by SGI solely for IRIX has been ported to run on this machine. They have ported some of the Open Inventor libaries but not the applications as of yet.
Unemployment rates are calculated from measuring unemployed people in the labor force. The labor force inlcudes everybody with a job or looking for work. If people do not fall into either of these categories they are not included in the labor fore and, therefore, not included in either employment or unemployment statistics.
It's really not all that complicated or strange as you suggest.
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In the 1970s dissolved CO2 that was deposited in lake Malawi by volcanic activity was released by a landslide that occurred during a heavy rainstorm. The effect was like shaking up a soda can. A huge amount of CO2 was released, lake levels dropped several *feet* and the released CO2 displaced the O2 around the lake (because it is heavier than O2 and the lake is in a depression). The effect was that hundreds of people who lived around the lake died because of lack of O2.
Got to be aware of the unintended consequences of such actions. If the CO2 gets released it may not have global effect, but it can have an extremely serious local effect.
The Hasboro (who bought AV) has a computer version of Diplomacy which is terrible. But there are others out there who have filled the void. Check out the web judge at www.redscape.com.
Universal access to free (or low cost) public records and publically produced data is a fabulous part of the US legal system that is practically unique in the world in its scope and openness. In 1977 when the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it really changed everything. Government was by and for the people it served. That law made government produced and maintained data open to just about anyone that asked. Putting those data on the internet just empowers citizens more.
There are things about individuals that are and should be public record. Who owns that piece of land? He does, and he's behind on his taxes. Is this guy a deadbeat dad behind on his child support? How much does this public employee earn?
The problem is, not that these data are available, but that they are occasionally used to cause individuals problems. To close access to them would be like shutting down the internet because some people get cracked.
If you are the CTO you probably hired most of the people about which you are concerned. What did you tell them when you hired them? Think about the things you said and the way you represented the company's situation when you are evaluating your decision. You can always get another job, but your integrity is irreplaceable.
In my opinion, you should also consider the nationality of the people you hired. If you hired people on work visas, if they lose their jobs they will most likely be deported and lose their homes.
Where I work, which has undergone recent downsizing, I gentleman I know is a Tiawanese national. His wife is a Chinese national. Their daughter is an American citizen. If he were to lose his job, he would have to go back to Taiwan and his wife would have to go back to China. Therefore, if he were to lose his job he would also lose his family!
Only the most heartless of us would not consider the situations of our friends and collegues when we make these very important decisions. Just by asking this question it is clear that you recognize the magnitude of your decision.
Just make sure you can look at yourself in the mirror and know that you did the right thing.
Hey, we still submit our T&Es on paper! George MCS NYC
The market cap for Red Hat is now about $5 bil. The market cap for SGI is now about $2 bil. In theory, inflated stock prices like this will even out. After all which one would you rather own?
Web agents I think are not usually considered intelligent agents.
We use intelligent agents in modeling problems and they simulate people. They are programmed with relatively simple rules and they interact with each other and sometimes learn (which would make them adaptive intelligent agents).
Can't model a real world problem without real world data. Duh.
You are using what might be the only serious application written in Objective C. It is not a gap in your education that you never used Objective C before.
If Swarm were ported to C++ and were allowed some kind of i-o with a database it might actually become an application that people used to solve real problems using real data. Until that time it will remain a strictly "academic" application.
I was just at the NT rollout here in NYC and I asked the Linux question.
According to the SGI people there:
There will be no SGI supported version of Linux anytime in the near future. If there is to be one someone's got to hack one together.
It's not as simple as it might seem as there is no BIOS on these machines as they boot from ROM. There may also be problems fully optimizing Linux for the machines as they have this unified memory structure. There will also be other issues that come up as SGI Linux is developed.
Little or no software developed by SGI solely for IRIX has been ported to run on this machine. They have ported some of the Open Inventor libaries but not the applications as of yet.
Unemployment rates are calculated from measuring unemployed people in the labor force. The labor force inlcudes everybody with a job or looking for work. If people do not fall into either of these categories they are not included in the labor fore and, therefore, not included in either employment or unemployment statistics.
It's really not all that complicated or strange as you suggest.