I have a big smile on my face when people ask me where I got my advanced degree in CS.
Don't have any degrees. I just have genuine passion for my field. 14 years later, I am still doing my work in it. At this point, no one even remotely cares whether I have such papers.
And yes, this has been answered many times over the years on Slashdot.:)
If you didn't read the article yet, please do :)
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That was quite enjoyable.
I particularly like that they are willing to push the envelope of freedom of speech whenever they can.
Air travel costs by 2030 will be a distant memory of today due to rising costs of jet fuel.
It will cost a lot to build our high speed rail, but it is essential to our state. Previously sparsely populated communities will be within commute range of Silicon Valley.
I can't wait for this project to start getting built.
Matinee showing - that usually means the theatre is nearly empty.
I tend to watch movies during such times. I don't tape them.
There are better ways. My camera, for example, has a "rec light" off switch.
A better way could be using a micro-tripod, pointing the camera between seats and probably from either underneath a seat on which an object like a backpack could be placed or from top of the seat held in place by a backpack and covered by a jacket.
Seagate and Samsung drives have an rs-232 diagnostic port. Not that it will be extremely useful on its own, but some things are written in plain English.
Another common cause of drive failure is a TVS. Removing that from the board sometimes springs the drive back to life long enough to recover the data.
The heads are flying above the surface on a tiny cushion of air - about half a micron. If the shock wave is sufficient to disturb the cushion, you got problems. Heads should never touch the surface. A destroyed heads stack is less critical than a destroyed platter surface may be.
The reason for the fees being so high is because of all the R&D we have to perform in order to be able to fix these things.
Each brand has its own ways of being fixed. The nature of the damage also alters the chances of recovery.
Well, it depends on your definition of reasonable. We charge about $1200 to replace heads on such a drive. Laptop drives are easier to work on than their big brothers, in my experience. If the firmware isn't corrupt, then basically all you need is a clean bench (aka clean room, laminar flow hood) and a working drive. Impact damage means new heads, new motor, then perhaps firmware recovery as well. But, yeah, fiddling with a crashed drive is not the smartest idea.
This story is an example of a fascinating marketing win for the PR company handling datacent's account. Drivesavers just did something similar kicking off their FUD campaign against other DR firms, like mine.
Heck, I published some videos on youtube how to rip apart external enclosures.
So, what the hell, since this story is a slashvertisement, I'll play along! If you hear such sounds, give me a call as well. I can actually tell you what can be done with your specific drive and don't charge an arm and a leg, just the arm.
Would you personally work for a lousy $17/hr? That's what the 33K translates to. Nevermind the benefits. It's a full-time career with massive psychological impact.
The entire country is underpaid, but that's besides the point.
Teachers are indeed grossly underpaid. They shouldn't have to work during Summer either. It's one of the most stressful positions and they do deserve a break from the madness.
I know plenty of 100K+/year accountants. I don't know as many teachers.
If teachers made as little as 70K, we wouldn't hear this argument. And yes, that is not much money either. A professional making $35/hr is not really considered successful in professional fields. That's why we can't attract professionals into that business.
Home payments eat whatever salary you make nevermind any savings.
I will go out and get my credentials but only after I have sufficient net worth to treat it as a volunteer position.
Yeah, I talk to random people. They find me based on my data. I don't think the pure random feature exists anymore, at least not in my client (ICQ 6.0, build 6059). I remember it in version 96a.
I just logged in, 28 people added me in the last 7 hours.
Hell, I went on dates with random users when it was big in USA.:)
1930499 is my UIN
Most of my contacts are either from former USSR or China.
Tesla - Cuda 1.0 Graphics boards - Cuda 1.1 (capable of atomic operations)
Tesla board - 1.5GB RAM Graphics board - 512MB RAM per GPU
If you have no requirement for 1.5GB of on-board RAM, the graphics boards are a better option. A Tesla is basically a Quadro board without the video output.
Computationally to CUDA, they are the same.
I am going to use some 9800GX2s for h.264 video encoding with the upcoming RapiHD product. I am still debating whether I will use 4 GX2s in a single box or if I will simply have twice as many boxes.
One thing that is curious about the article is that they are only using a single quadcore chip. Most people who are considering using quad GX2s suggest a core per GPU. Their rig probably would perform even faster with 8 cores.
ColdFusion should be shot with a silver bullet, stabbed through the heart with a stake, be stuffed with garlic, and be buried at a crossroads at midnight in a holy water-filled lead coffin with elder signs on all sides, inside and out. Other than that, I have no idea why it ranks in the top 20. Answer to Coldfusion's longevity - MySpace.
Took over Novell 4.11 network, built two new computer labs from scratch, got us on the Internet with a fractional T1, built a team of 4 other people to help me, and worked as an IT admin for another company after school through an unsolicited principal's referral.
Could have done it all at 11 given the opportunity.
Woe be on these students once he decides to implement mandatory profiles, take away local admin rights, and really manage that network. Windows 2000 comes with some good tools for that.;-)
Now one word of advice - learn business and find a way not to work for other people. It's a lot more productive.
I would argue that finding someone with equal or better level of intelligence is a major challenge. Some of us are indeed smarter than most people. I'd met someone whom I consider an equal or better than me in terms of intelligence only once or twice. That's just simple reality. To most other people, and not necessarily women, I have to translate what I have to say into simpler language. Most also do not have my analytical, reasoning, and research skills.
Is that boasting? Not really. It is a fact backed by much empirical evidence. However, when you do meet an intellectual match, it's pure joy to be with her. I am certainly ready to admit when someone is equal or better than me at something.
They do like guys suffering from the "nice guy syndrome".
I wrote a definitive article on aspect ratios on my site www.hotprofiletips.com
You will find it if you search for aspect ratio dating profiles or similar query on Google. Should be on the front page. My most viewed page, for what it's worth.
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I have a big smile on my face when people ask me where I got my advanced degree in CS.
Don't have any degrees. I just have genuine passion for my field. 14 years later, I am still doing my work in it. At this point, no one even remotely cares whether I have such papers.
And yes, this has been answered many times over the years on Slashdot. :)
That was quite enjoyable.
I particularly like that they are willing to push the envelope of freedom of speech whenever they can.
You finally explained why I never "beat" most of my games!
I read dialog.
I also read game manuals before playing them. Dialog makes games fun for me. :)
Air travel costs by 2030 will be a distant memory of today due to rising costs of jet fuel.
It will cost a lot to build our high speed rail, but it is essential to our state. Previously sparsely populated communities will be within commute range of Silicon Valley.
I can't wait for this project to start getting built.
You can probably thank Scratch Live http://scratchlive.net/ for this.
They are rapidly replacing actual vinyl records and CDs as DJs' tools of choice.
Feels right?
No.
Feels coercive to me.
Take the code made in academic software, recompile in production software. What's the big liability? You'll be buying that software anyway.
Matinee showing - that usually means the theatre is nearly empty.
I tend to watch movies during such times. I don't tape them.
There are better ways. My camera, for example, has a "rec light" off switch.
A better way could be using a micro-tripod, pointing the camera between seats and probably from either underneath a seat on which an object like a backpack could be placed or from top of the seat held in place by a backpack and covered by a jacket.
Good luck detecting that!
Seagate and Samsung drives have an rs-232 diagnostic port. Not that it will be extremely useful on its own, but some things are written in plain English.
Another common cause of drive failure is a TVS. Removing that from the board sometimes springs the drive back to life long enough to recover the data.
GetDataBack is one of the better tools, in my experience. Active@ Undelete, UFS Explorer, and R-studio are also part of my arsenal.
The problem with GetDataBack is that it takes forever to run.
We only run programs like this on a read-only sector-level image of the damaged hard drive.
The heads are flying above the surface on a tiny cushion of air - about half a micron. If the shock wave is sufficient to disturb the cushion, you got problems. Heads should never touch the surface. A destroyed heads stack is less critical than a destroyed platter surface may be.
The reason for the fees being so high is because of all the R&D we have to perform in order to be able to fix these things.
Each brand has its own ways of being fixed. The nature of the damage also alters the chances of recovery.
Well, it depends on your definition of reasonable. We charge about $1200 to replace heads on such a drive. Laptop drives are easier to work on than their big brothers, in my experience. If the firmware isn't corrupt, then basically all you need is a clean bench (aka clean room, laminar flow hood) and a working drive. Impact damage means new heads, new motor, then perhaps firmware recovery as well. But, yeah, fiddling with a crashed drive is not the smartest idea.
This story is an example of a fascinating marketing win for the PR company handling datacent's account. Drivesavers just did something similar kicking off their FUD campaign against other DR firms, like mine.
Heck, I published some videos on youtube how to rip apart external enclosures.
So, what the hell, since this story is a slashvertisement, I'll play along! If you hear such sounds, give me a call as well. I can actually tell you what can be done with your specific drive and don't charge an arm and a leg, just the arm.
http://www.harddiskcrashed.com/?sl
You can stay in touch with Ray at http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/
I see recent posts referencing Slashdot, so it's probably business as usual.
And you call that not underpaid?
Would you personally work for a lousy $17/hr? That's what the 33K translates to. Nevermind the benefits. It's a full-time career with massive psychological impact.
The entire country is underpaid, but that's besides the point.
Teachers are indeed grossly underpaid. They shouldn't have to work during Summer either. It's one of the most stressful positions and they do deserve a break from the madness.
I know plenty of 100K+/year accountants. I don't know as many teachers.
If teachers made as little as 70K, we wouldn't hear this argument. And yes, that is not much money either. A professional making $35/hr is not really considered successful in professional fields. That's why we can't attract professionals into that business.
Home payments eat whatever salary you make nevermind any savings.
I will go out and get my credentials but only after I have sufficient net worth to treat it as a volunteer position.
OK...
That was really funny!
Thanks for reinventing...Usenet. You just described how Usenet was originally designed to function. :)
Yeah, I talk to random people. They find me based on my data. I don't think the pure random feature exists anymore, at least not in my client (ICQ 6.0, build 6059). I remember it in version 96a.
I just logged in, 28 people added me in the last 7 hours.
Hell, I went on dates with random users when it was big in USA. :)
1930499 is my UIN
Most of my contacts are either from former USSR or China.
You may say "The communists choose ICQ!"
Tesla - Cuda 1.0
Graphics boards - Cuda 1.1 (capable of atomic operations)
Tesla board - 1.5GB RAM
Graphics board - 512MB RAM per GPU
If you have no requirement for 1.5GB of on-board RAM, the graphics boards are a better option. A Tesla is basically a Quadro board without the video output.
Computationally to CUDA, they are the same.
I am going to use some 9800GX2s for h.264 video encoding with the upcoming RapiHD product. I am still debating whether I will use 4 GX2s in a single box or if I will simply have twice as many boxes.
One thing that is curious about the article is that they are only using a single quadcore chip. Most people who are considering using quad GX2s suggest a core per GPU. Their rig probably would perform even faster with 8 cores.
Answer to Coldfusion's longevity - MySpace.
Make your own conclusions
...But that was 13 years ago. :)
;-)
Took over Novell 4.11 network, built two new computer labs from scratch, got us on the Internet with a fractional T1, built a team of 4 other people to help me, and worked as an IT admin for another company after school through an unsolicited principal's referral.
Could have done it all at 11 given the opportunity.
Woe be on these students once he decides to implement mandatory profiles, take away local admin rights, and really manage that network. Windows 2000 comes with some good tools for that.
Now one word of advice - learn business and find a way not to work for other people. It's a lot more productive.
I would argue that finding someone with equal or better level of intelligence is a major challenge. Some of us are indeed smarter than most people. I'd met someone whom I consider an equal or better than me in terms of intelligence only once or twice. That's just simple reality. To most other people, and not necessarily women, I have to translate what I have to say into simpler language. Most also do not have my analytical, reasoning, and research skills.
Is that boasting? Not really. It is a fact backed by much empirical evidence. However, when you do meet an intellectual match, it's pure joy to be with her. I am certainly ready to admit when someone is equal or better than me at something.
They do like guys suffering from the "nice guy syndrome".
From one of those two :)
Near San Francisco in California (zip 94552)
It's probably based on market penetration. Geeks love the site so they tell other geeks. Hence, the effect is more pronounced in high-tech areas.
I am sure that was the intent. I wrote her :-D
I wrote a definitive article on aspect ratios on my site www.hotprofiletips.com
You will find it if you search for aspect ratio dating profiles or similar query on Google. Should be on the front page. My most viewed page, for what it's worth.