The democratic and republican parties are mostly just fountain heads for corporate interests primarily, and secondarily places where people can believe democracy is taking place because they can "vote".
Look what is happening now. We just created a 4th branch of government, and nobody even batted an eyelash.
This fourth branch is far more powerful than the other 3, and the people in this branch cannot be voted out of office.
I am of course talking about Paulson and his Goldman Sacs cronies in the Federal Reserve.
I hope they leave current car companies as much as possibly out of the plans to do this. The boards of the major car companies have been colluded by Oil interests, and would I believe, make it as expensive and as hard as possible to switch from petrol to electric vehicles.
1) More opportunities for consulting work. I have noticed that even though I have a full time job, the opportunities for consulting work have as of late exploded.
I am not sure why, but I think it might have to do with the fact managers can reduce head counts and look good, but still get stuff done if they hire consultants to do the work.
Bad times ironically mean good times for me, anyway.
Here is hoping for that mythical good time 5000 Dow!
2) As many have pointed out, we already have a revenue model that works, and since the majority of the projects are free software, why would good times vs bad times make any difference in open source project managers decisions moneywise?
My guess is because open source is driven with something beyond money, unlike commercial software:
We just want to make the best software, without direct cash flow restrictions or bean counters messing things up.
Yes, this secret sauce is why open source delivers fewer bugs in software and has much more potential to crack very hard computer science problems.
Like building a decent OS Kernel.:-)
3) Finally, I have a huge list but the last reason this guy is full of rocks in his head is because open source is no longer just an economy.
It is a bonafide social movement. That includes all of the politics that is included with any major social movement.
As a open source developer and promoter, none of the values that this political ideology encompass rely on money:
1) Build the finest software. 2) Include the Binaries and the Source code. 3) Document the whole system including the build tool chain, which is also open source.
I mean, can anyone here point out what aspect of the GPL v2 or v3 is harmed because we bailed out a bunch of fat cats and criminals and now we are going to have years worth of flat or negative economic growth?
I am not even sure I will get student loans next year because I live debt free for example. With how the credit system is rigged, people who live debt free are considered HUGE risks.
But that is another comment on a different storyline.:-)
The best advice you can give someone, if they are going to be encountering certain parts of our empire, that no longer have a constitutional basis, is to leave your stuff at home, or ship it to yourself.
Otherwise your valuables will be confiscated in the name of the Empire of the USA.
Do not bring stuff on board with you, or through checkout. Ship it separate.
This is nothing but a scheme to get free stuff by government employees or contractors.
Most of the power supply systems for my servers, which are HP G3-5 systems of various U sizes, tend to waste more power as temperature goes up.
This has nothing to do with CPU's though. It is the power supplies on the machines. As temperature goes up, efficiency goes down. At around 80 degrees I noticed a significant larger draw on the power supply with my amp meter.
I had a gaming system with two ATI 4870's and the 800 Watt power supply would crash my machine if I did not run the air conditioner and keep the room at 70 degrees after some fairly long Supreme Commander runs.
I noticed that the amperage would go up, and the power output would go down as temperature would go up.
I have not conducted any experiments in a lab setting with this stuff, but from experience, jacking the temperature up usually makes power supplies work harder and makes them less efficient.
"Crappy software running on linux is just as easy to rig..."
Possibly.
But Linux software is different from Diebold in that it can also be reviewed by others who can fix those faults without going to jail like here in the USA.
First of all, this has nothing to do with 700B and a banker.
This also had nothing to do with lending people with bad debt.
I mean, the sub prime mortgages total about 61 billion total, of debt, for everyone who has a home in the USA.
The issue here, is that Commercial Banks, and Investment banks where combined together under the Federal Reserve (NOT a government institution, but a private entity) in the 90's to increase credit.
So, you had ludicrous deals in the 90's and later with leveraged buyouts of companies, propped up by investment bank CEO's through leverage of like 300 to 1, which is ridiculous.
This rampant abuse of credit by the Investment bank CEO's to fund these mergers and consolidations of billions of dollars of net worth, with almost no money down except the promise of higher stock values, was greedy and criminal.
I wish you people would stop swallowing what the press tells you, and do your own research online into these problems.
I mean, it is simple Math. Home mortgages cannot possibly bring the economy down to a 700B bailout. There simply isn't that many homes mortgaged.
This entire debacle was orchestrated by the Federal Reserve, condoned by Congress and greedily executed by the CEO's of these investment banks who funded these huge mergers that have happened over the past 10-15 years.
They used your savings, they used your 401K plans, they used your future earnings as credit.
Personally I do not care what happens. Either way, if we bail out the Investment CEO's, they get to walk away from all of this and we get to pay.
If we do not pay, the investment CEO's lose everything.
Either way, the USA is bankrupt.
So if we are going to go down, I would like to take the CEO's of these investment banks with me.
Everything isn't that bad. Really. I think the assumption of either a senior admin position or a entry level stuff is too simplistic of a analysis of our industry.
There are lots of in betweens. Right now being 42, and about the middle of my career I am going back to school to finish all my degree work. I accomplished everything I wanted to do and now have on my resume the entire ball of wax, from admin to CIO.
I just do not have the degree work which I want.
On the weekends I put in VoIP systems for lawyers and doctors offices using sipxpbx. (That includes all of the nuances of reprogramming the network routers or installing routers that can do QoS). I can do a lot more, including coding middleware (apache axis), and also write backends for a lot of websites (servlets).
But the point is, I am sure an industrious college grad could figure out to do these things and the point there is to be flexible.
I started my career and built upon becomming an expert in:
Set your sights on these areas, and try to study them and become competent so that you are flexible to address most opportunities that come your way.
If you cannot find a job, hit the pavement and cold call companies. I do it all the time, and it works!
So if a old 42 year old geezer can do it, so can you.
Finally, I think most people who enter the computer field think that it is like any other job, where you can just graduate and then start a job and just treat it like any other invocation.
You have to continually learn, which means interrupting your career like I am doing to go back to school.
If that prospect is daunting, you might not like CS as a career (I.T.). If you do not continually improve yourself you become fairly useless fairly quickly.
So instead of playing games all evening or watching TV when you get home, start cracking the books guy.:-)
To my fine Stanford and Harvard business MBA people.
Try as you may, struggle as you will:
1) Open Source will defeat you on any battlefield when the objective is decent software that actually works, and works well.
2) Scamper against your timelines, and your fixed budgets and your limited staff.
Spend BILLIONS in fact.
We will defeat you because it is a simple fact of numbers, that we have, and you cannot understand.
3) Finally, my good professors. We will enable the poor who want to study computer science that cannot afford your software. We will defeat your cronies in the places of power that use our personal information irresponsibly to keep that power. We will penetrate those secrets held by your proprietary software and use those secrets against you and your customers.
Ultimately what we want is social justice in a technological society, open systems that control our money we work hard for and the people we vote into office.
Open systems we can learn and grow from to enrich the lives of fellow human beings.
Ultimately this is about the pursuit of science and the benefits that pursuit brings to all of humanity.
Not just those who can power monger or profit from it.
Ultimately I hope everyone reading this, understands that this is not about software anymore.
It is about the right to learn, and to be empowered in a technological/information based economy.
If you lock up everything, then only a few can benefit. If you unlock everything, everyone has a fighting chance on equal footing to compete in such a marketplace.
Oracle Off Hours support. Find a company that is 24/7 and offer to do staff holidays on the weekends for a reasonable price per hour.
Right now companies are making unreasonable demands on staff and morale is at an all time low.
I also put in VoIP systems using Asterisk or sipxpbx. Hand in hand with that I also usually offer to do network engineering to implement QoS on the network.
I can pull down about $2 to $3K on a weekend sometimes depending on the jobs I have to do.
Most of the time its about $1K.
Which is not too bad for 2 extra days of work. Much better than working at a part time job.
Plus it shows initiative on my resume. (Although that can scare employers because they realize your very talented and could probably leave anytime.)
I usually keep the initiative part off my resume for just that reason, but not always.
Good Luck and have fun. Doing outside work has been some of the funnest things I have done in my career.
MMmm.....then why is it that many facets of string theory are so "religious" in nature. (i.e. absolutely NO CHANCE of it EVER being tested, but is put forth as credible "pure science" research.)
String Theory is THE cutting edge that we have to offer in physics today about how all of the forces in the Universe relate and work together to form reality.
Even those working on the theory are concerned with it, in that it is becoming almost "religous" in nature. (Oh isn't that just so HORRIBLE?).
See: ``The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next'' by Lee Smolin; Houghton Mifflin
Sounds like there are great leaps of "faith" as it were, based on some logic that may or may not explain how reality is.
So it is OK to have faith based on a logical result of a series of assumptions, as long as it is called "science", but it is not OK to have such beliefs if it is called religion?
I am going to call your bluff, and point out that science frequently intervenes in areas it has no conclusive proof otherwise, and decrees things impossible simply because, well, "I am a scientist. You will not argue with me."
On one side you have the decree of the scientists saying any other finding other than 5-6 billion is impossible because we said so. (This result cannot be proven directly, only indirectly through decay estimates, which MAY or MAY NOT be constant over that length of time, probably not, see above.)
On the other hand you have the bible thumpers who say the ancestry of man can be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve, and its about 4000 BC.
Mmmm....I am not qualified to answer that question, but neither are you.
The only person who is qualified to answer that question is the person who was there when the universe was created and seen it happen, and started the clock.
So, science is open to all topics except religion, eh?
Doesn't sound very open to me, or very scientific.
Sounds like a bunch of people ganging up on a guy because he has certain personal beliefs. Beliefs that threaten an athiestic view of the humanists.
From what I have been reading in a book by John Grant called "Corrupted Science", this type of behavior is quite common in the practice of science, probably even more so today.
Robert Oppenhiemer, arguably a very brilliant man....
until he said his religion brings us a warning about the use of Nuclear Weapons and creating them that he finds hard to justify building them.
Unfortunately, his career and his life thereafter where pretty much destroyed by the scientific community and government labeled him "questionably patriotic US citizen."
Sound familair? "Oh, but scientists are so much better human beings and so much more educated in thier ways than those backward religous people!"
Yep, but it isn't the preachers these days I would like to point out that are so "hell bent" on killing God and inventing ever more gruesome weapons of destruction.
No, that would be our scietific community.
So for those of you posting his speech should be censored, and he be removed...
I would like to point out you are following in the fine scientific footsteps of hundreds of scientists that are morally bankrupt, cheat, steal and corrupt ever so nicely documented in "Corrupted Science".
As far as I am concerned, I am more worried about what will happen to our world if science is not managed correctly and the humanists win.
I assure you, the existence they envision for humanity is far more horrific than any Spanish inquisition ever was.
There will be no place on the planet that is safe.
You will have no where to run.
This will be our destiny if science continues to be a free for all, all in the name of progress and anything goes.
After all, God doesn't exist so there really is nothing to be worried about.
If these people are so concerned with the mans private views, then may I suggest an experiment that conculsively demonstrates God does not exist.
Then we can go about our business destroying ourselves with a clean conscious.
Yep, I am over 40 and STILL no EXACTLY what you mean.:-)
-Hack
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I think personally, that everyone is guessing.
After all, a machine of this size has never been turned on before.
The procedure aligning the device is probably going to be "novel".
Nobody is going to be able to pick a date and say with absolute certainty, this is the day we will be doing full power tests.
Oh, and I should mention one other leetle factoid.
The device, has already caused a number of accidents, that cost the lives of people during the construction, and even though I doubt it will destroy the earth, I think it will fail in its mission. (Find Higs).
If something should fail, such as the magnets that direct the beam and the particle beam hits the inside of the device, it could be catastrophic.
Especially if the beam blows a hole in the helium containment tube and makes direct contact with the liquid helium.
If that happens, lets just say you will hear about it.:-)
-gc
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I would also like to point out they have to align the particle streams yet, AND this will take some time before they turn the energy levels up on the device to maximum, which as many have pointed out, is the "new territory" area.
Not until the device is at full power and doing collisions is there really any concern.
I suspect full power, "universe shattering" tests won't take place until sometime in December at the earliest.
I think a political body of some sort would serve the I.T. Industry well.
I do not buy into the belief that is being peddled here by the "all UNIONS are bad crowd" that if a UNION where to develop it would ship all the jobs over seas.
What a simplistic view of the profession.
We are not building widgets here, we are building very complex pieces of software. That includes a large amount of cultural restrictions, logistics for example that are totally unique from country to country.
I doubt it would be cost effective to move on a large scale that much development work out of the country.
Besides, the concept that our jobs are safe without a UNION cannot be logical if the same people believe the jobs will be shipped over seas if we form a UNION.
That IS circular logic.
They are already and will continue to be even without a UNION.
I think the working conditions for I.T. are poor, and so is the pay. Normally with increased responsibility, comes increase in pay.
That is not happening, instead, pay is being reduced and hours are becoming longer with individuals "expected" to work continuously 24x7.
Individuals are even forced to use their own vehicles to drive between sites with no reimbursement for vehicle wear and tear for example.
There is very little actual educational reimbursement in the industry. I say actual because I have seen LOTS of companies proclaim that they offer tuition reimbursement but when you actually request it, there are problems in getting it. Usually ending up with no pay raises "Oh, you got tution last year right?" or worse management sees that as less time for you to work 24/7 on the business. So, you end up getting labled as "semi" employable with no real long standing future in the company.
From my perspective as I leave this industry and go back to school for all the degree work I want to finish, I find I will not be missing my job much and will be doing much of the job I had previously as a private practice if I do software work or networking work.
That way when I wake up at 3AM, and I WILL get paid for it.
Try and replace that system from India once.
I would also like to remind people that the world is not as stable as many would think it is. This era where you can do commerce is entirely dependant on good relations.
That could change very quickly and ALL of the companies assets overseas could and probably WOULD be confiscated.
There are real tangible risks to offshoring. Offshoring is a young practice and as energy costs skyrocket, it gets progressively harder to have something made overseas shipped thousands and thousands of miles to its destination.
At a certain point this WILL breakdown totally and it will be impossible.
My guess is when oil hits about $180 a barrel, which in my opinion is not very far away.
The assumption that people are stupid is pretty simplistic.
Let me offer a counter view of this so called "stupidity"?
Lets start out with the so called financial crisis right now and how this is being published as "a bunch of stupid americans that bought homes at outrageous terms."
Terms I would like to point out set by the Banks.
The capital markets in this country are not being whacked by home housing with little $200,000 dollar mortgage payments by little Americans.
They are whacked because Wall Street destroyed this countrys financial base by doing Multi Billion Dollar deals with no money down, or just make believe stock options for all these corporate mergers we have had in the past 10 years.
Thats the REAL problem.
This is a CLUB. The CLUB is privatizing our monetary system to an extreme by centralizing the authority of all money decisions into about 8 peoples hands.
These top 8 people work at the Federal Reserve and are above and beyond the law, answer to NO ONE and control every single dollar in every single wallet.
Perhaps if the system wasn't so centralized, and the crooks were not running everything, people wouldn't have to be so "smart" to "plan" for retirement.
As it is right now, unless you are part of the club, you stand a VERY good chance of having most of your retirement EVAPORATE over the years.
I mean, look at some of this nonsense even on the financial news channels about "staying in there for the long haul".
Cisco stocks will NEVER recover from their highs 8 years ago, no matter what the long haul is for example.
The best thing you can do to preserve your investment is to put at least some of your money into gold, and for god sakes avoid 401K plans and big investment houses.
This gets complicated. But like I said, if you could actually trust the people now days that deal with your money, you wouldn't need to be a investment "geek" to actually keep yourself solvent through your retirement years.
Not only that, I bet they are better than we are, absolutely laugh at our television broadcasts of our "top" scientists BY DECREE, telling us that the distances between blah blah blah and that is totally impossible to cross such distances....blah blah blah....
Really lets put this in perspective.
In less than 120 years, we went from Orville and Co, to the moon.
Our basic understanding of the very structure of the universe and the forces and materials of things go together is infantile at best.
I mean, we have no concept of what gravity is, although we know enough to describe it and how it acts on objects.
We have no clue about the various types of materials the universe is made out of or their properties. I mean dark energy, matter etc have practically just been discovered for example.
Now take a sentient being other than humans, and instead of 150 years to figure out how to travel in space, give them say an extra million years. Even, dare I say a BILLION years of time.
Point is, you no longer have just ET's, you have gods with a small g walking around up there.
If we can do this rate of advance in just 150 years, imagine what ET's could have done with a billion years.
What is possible would be pretty much fantasy to us.
If there are ET's and Earth is not a rare occurrence, they must be all over the place.
I bet we are just the ants in their backyards.:-)
-Hack
PS: I hope there is something better than humans out there. We suck.
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I think the elections are now mere formalities.
The democratic and republican parties are mostly just fountain heads for corporate interests primarily, and secondarily places where people can believe democracy is taking place because they can "vote".
Look what is happening now. We just created a 4th branch of government, and nobody even batted an eyelash.
This fourth branch is far more powerful than the other 3, and the people in this branch cannot be voted out of office.
I am of course talking about Paulson and his Goldman Sacs cronies in the Federal Reserve.
I think personally it is time to start over.
Peacefully if possible.
If not, so be it.
-Hack
Actually,
I hope they leave current car companies as much as possibly out of the plans to do this. The boards of the major car companies have been colluded by Oil interests, and would I believe, make it as expensive and as hard as possible to switch from petrol to electric vehicles.
-Hack
Why?
1) More opportunities for consulting work. I have noticed that even though I have a full time job, the opportunities for consulting work have as of late exploded.
I am not sure why, but I think it might have to do with the fact managers can reduce head counts and look good, but still get stuff done if they hire consultants to do the work.
Bad times ironically mean good times for me, anyway.
Here is hoping for that mythical good time 5000 Dow!
2) As many have pointed out, we already have a revenue model that works, and since the majority of the projects are free software, why would good times vs bad times make any difference in open source project managers decisions moneywise?
My guess is because open source is driven with something beyond money, unlike commercial software:
We just want to make the best software, without direct cash flow restrictions or bean counters messing things up.
Yes, this secret sauce is why open source delivers fewer bugs in software and has much more potential to crack very hard computer science problems.
Like building a decent OS Kernel. :-)
3) Finally, I have a huge list but the last reason this guy is full of rocks in his head is because open source is no longer just an economy.
It is a bonafide social movement. That includes all of the politics that is included with any major social movement.
As a open source developer and promoter, none of the values that this political ideology encompass rely on money:
1) Build the finest software.
2) Include the Binaries and the Source code.
3) Document the whole system including the build tool chain, which is also open source.
I mean, can anyone here point out what aspect of the GPL v2 or v3 is harmed because we bailed out a bunch of fat cats and criminals and now we are going to have years worth of flat or negative economic growth?
I am not even sure I will get student loans next year because I live debt free for example. With how the credit system is rigged, people who live debt free are considered HUGE risks.
But that is another comment on a different storyline. :-)
-Hackus
I hope not.
The best advice you can give someone, if they are going to be encountering certain parts of our empire, that no longer have a constitutional basis, is to leave your stuff at home, or ship it to yourself.
Otherwise your valuables will be confiscated in the name of the Empire of the USA.
Do not bring stuff on board with you, or through checkout. Ship it separate.
This is nothing but a scheme to get free stuff by government employees or contractors.
It has nothing to do with keeping you safe.
-Hack
Most of the power supply systems for my servers, which are HP G3-5 systems of various U sizes, tend to waste more power as temperature goes up.
This has nothing to do with CPU's though. It is the power supplies on the machines. As temperature goes up, efficiency goes down. At around 80 degrees I noticed a significant larger draw on the power supply with my amp meter.
I had a gaming system with two ATI 4870's and the 800 Watt power supply would crash my machine if I did not run the air conditioner and keep the room at 70 degrees after some fairly long Supreme Commander runs.
I noticed that the amperage would go up, and the power output would go down as temperature would go up.
I have not conducted any experiments in a lab setting with this stuff, but from experience, jacking the temperature up usually makes power supplies work harder and makes them less efficient.
-gc
MMmmmm...
I take a different view.
This is based on the fact that the clock increase dance we have enjoyed in speed is basically over now.
The real increases in computing speed are going to come from the radical and the agressive use of threads everywhere in your programs.
Why?
Well, although speed is not going to increase, the number of cores per clock will increase dramatically over the future.
Speed is going to come from doing everything at the same time on a per clock tick as much as possible.
-Hack
"Crappy software running on linux is just as easy to rig..."
Possibly.
But Linux software is different from Diebold in that it can also be reviewed by others who can fix those faults without going to jail like here in the USA.
Nothing political about that at all.
-Hack
Then I guess its...
Bye bye Birdy?
-Hack
Well, you should probably get the facts straight.
First of all, this has nothing to do with 700B and a banker.
This also had nothing to do with lending people with bad debt.
I mean, the sub prime mortgages total about 61 billion total, of debt, for everyone who has a home in the USA.
The issue here, is that Commercial Banks, and Investment banks where combined together under the Federal Reserve (NOT a government institution, but a private entity) in the 90's to increase credit.
So, you had ludicrous deals in the 90's and later with leveraged buyouts of companies, propped up by investment bank CEO's through leverage of like 300 to 1, which is ridiculous.
This rampant abuse of credit by the Investment bank CEO's to fund these mergers and consolidations of billions of dollars of net worth, with almost no money down except the promise of higher stock values, was greedy and criminal.
I wish you people would stop swallowing what the press tells you, and do your own research online into these problems.
I mean, it is simple Math. Home mortgages cannot possibly bring the economy down to a 700B bailout. There simply isn't that many homes mortgaged.
This entire debacle was orchestrated by the Federal Reserve, condoned by Congress and greedily executed by the CEO's of these investment banks who funded these huge mergers that have happened over the past 10-15 years.
They used your savings, they used your 401K plans, they used your future earnings as credit.
Personally I do not care what happens. Either way, if we bail out the Investment CEO's, they get to walk away from all of this and we get to pay.
If we do not pay, the investment CEO's lose everything.
Either way, the USA is bankrupt.
So if we are going to go down, I would like to take the CEO's of these investment banks with me.
Put them in the bread line right next too me.
-Hackus
Well,
Everything isn't that bad. Really. I think the assumption of either a senior admin position or a entry level stuff is too simplistic of a analysis of our industry.
There are lots of in betweens. Right now being 42, and about the middle of my career I am going back to school to finish all my degree work. I accomplished everything I wanted to do and now have on my resume the entire ball of wax, from admin to CIO.
I just do not have the degree work which I want.
On the weekends I put in VoIP systems for lawyers and doctors offices using sipxpbx. (That includes all of the nuances of reprogramming the network routers or installing routers that can do QoS). I can do a lot more, including coding middleware (apache axis), and also write backends for a lot of websites (servlets).
But the point is, I am sure an industrious college grad could figure out to do these things and the point there is to be flexible.
I started my career and built upon becomming an expert in:
1) Software Engineering (C++ and Java)
2) Relational Databases
3) Networking
Set your sights on these areas, and try to study them and become competent so that you are flexible to address most opportunities that come your way.
If you cannot find a job, hit the pavement and cold call companies. I do it all the time, and it works!
So if a old 42 year old geezer can do it, so can you.
Finally, I think most people who enter the computer field think that it is like any other job, where you can just graduate and then start a job and just treat it like any other invocation.
You have to continually learn, which means interrupting your career like I am doing to go back to school.
If that prospect is daunting, you might not like CS as a career (I.T.). If you do not continually improve yourself you become fairly useless fairly quickly.
So instead of playing games all evening or watching TV when you get home, start cracking the books guy. :-)
-Hack
To my fine Stanford and Harvard business MBA people.
Try as you may, struggle as you will:
1) Open Source will defeat you on any battlefield when the objective is decent software that actually works, and works well.
2) Scamper against your timelines, and your fixed budgets and your limited staff.
Spend BILLIONS in fact.
We will defeat you because it is a simple fact of numbers, that we have, and you cannot understand.
3) Finally, my good professors. We will enable the poor who want to study computer science that cannot afford your software. We will defeat your cronies in the places of power that use our personal information irresponsibly to keep that power. We will penetrate those secrets held by your proprietary software and use those secrets against you and your customers.
Ultimately what we want is social justice in a technological society, open systems that control our money we work hard for and the people we vote into office.
Open systems we can learn and grow from to enrich the lives of fellow human beings.
Ultimately this is about the pursuit of science and the benefits that pursuit brings to all of humanity.
Not just those who can power monger or profit from it.
Ultimately I hope everyone reading this, understands that this is not about software anymore.
It is about the right to learn, and to be empowered in a technological/information based economy.
If you lock up everything, then only a few can benefit. If you unlock everything, everyone has a fighting chance on equal footing to compete in such a marketplace.
-Hack
Chips will be available on the 22nm process spring/summer 2011.
-Hack
First, incorporate as a LLC, if possible.
Make sure you track your time carefully.
Record your gas back and forth to job sites!
Stuff I would suggest you take a crack at:
Oracle Off Hours support. Find a company that is 24/7 and offer to do staff holidays on the weekends for a reasonable price per hour.
Right now companies are making unreasonable demands on staff and morale is at an all time low.
I also put in VoIP systems using Asterisk or sipxpbx. Hand in hand with that I also usually offer to do network engineering to implement QoS on the network.
I can pull down about $2 to $3K on a weekend sometimes depending on the jobs I have to do.
Most of the time its about $1K.
Which is not too bad for 2 extra days of work. Much better than working at a part time job.
Plus it shows initiative on my resume.
(Although that can scare employers because they realize your very talented and could probably leave anytime.)
I usually keep the initiative part off my resume for just that reason, but not always.
Good Luck and have fun. Doing outside work has been some of the funnest things I have done in my career.
Have fun above all or it probably isn't worth it.
IMHO anyway.
-Hack
Let me get this straight.
Religion is outside the realm of science?
MMmm.....then why is it that many facets of string theory are so "religious" in nature.
(i.e. absolutely NO CHANCE of it EVER being tested, but is put forth as credible "pure science" research.)
String Theory is THE cutting edge that we have to offer in physics today about how all of the forces in the Universe relate and work together to form reality.
Even those working on the theory are concerned with it, in that it is becoming almost "religous" in nature. (Oh isn't that just so HORRIBLE?).
See: ``The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next'' by Lee Smolin; Houghton Mifflin
Sounds like there are great leaps of "faith" as it were, based on some logic that may or may not explain how reality is.
So it is OK to have faith based on a logical result of a series of assumptions, as long as it is called "science", but it is not OK to have such beliefs if it is called religion?
I am going to call your bluff, and point out that science frequently intervenes in areas it has no conclusive proof otherwise, and decrees things impossible simply because, well, "I am a scientist. You will not argue with me."
Lets take the age of the earth.
Science says....about ~5-6 billion. (If we can depend on the rate of decay being the same and constant for that length of time. Even THAT may not be the case. See: http://groups.google.com/group/libero-captivum/browse_thread/thread/de09483b3d89936d?hl=en )
Bible thumpers say 10,000 years or so.
On one side you have the decree of the scientists saying any other finding other than 5-6 billion is impossible because we said so.
(This result cannot be proven directly, only indirectly through decay estimates, which MAY or MAY NOT be constant over that length of time, probably not, see above.)
On the other hand you have the bible thumpers who say the ancestry of man can be traced all the way back to Adam and Eve, and its about 4000 BC.
For Example:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~emsleyjohnson/
Now, which one is based on faith.
Answer: Both.
Which one is technically right?
Mmmm....I am not qualified to answer that question, but neither are you.
The only person who is qualified to answer that question is the person who was there when the universe was created and seen it happen, and started the clock.
I wonder who THAT would be.
Wanna take a guess?
-Hack
So, science is open to all topics except religion, eh?
Doesn't sound very open to me, or very scientific.
Sounds like a bunch of people ganging up on a guy because he has certain personal beliefs. Beliefs that threaten an athiestic view of the humanists.
From what I have been reading in a book by John Grant called "Corrupted Science", this type of behavior is quite common in the practice of science, probably even more so today.
Robert Oppenhiemer, arguably a very brilliant man....
until he said his religion brings us a warning about the use of Nuclear Weapons and creating them that he finds hard to justify building them.
Unfortunately, his career and his life thereafter where pretty much destroyed by the scientific community and government labeled him "questionably patriotic US citizen."
Sound familair? "Oh, but scientists are so much better human beings and so much more educated in thier ways than those backward religous people!"
Yep, but it isn't the preachers these days I would like to point out that are so "hell bent" on killing God and inventing ever more gruesome weapons of destruction.
No, that would be our scietific community.
So for those of you posting his speech should be censored, and he be removed...
I would like to point out you are following in the fine scientific footsteps of hundreds of scientists that are morally bankrupt, cheat, steal and corrupt ever so nicely documented in "Corrupted Science".
As far as I am concerned, I am more worried about what will happen to our world if science is not managed correctly and the humanists win.
I assure you, the existence they envision for humanity is far more horrific than any Spanish inquisition ever was.
There will be no place on the planet that is safe.
You will have no where to run.
This will be our destiny if science continues to be a free for all, all in the name of progress and anything goes.
After all, God doesn't exist so there really is nothing to be worried about.
If these people are so concerned with the mans private views, then may I suggest an experiment that conculsively demonstrates God does not exist.
Then we can go about our business destroying ourselves with a clean conscious.
-Hackus
Yep, I am over 40 and STILL no EXACTLY what you mean. :-)
-Hack
I think personally, that everyone is guessing.
After all, a machine of this size has never been turned on before.
The procedure aligning the device is probably going to be "novel".
Nobody is going to be able to pick a date and say with absolute certainty, this is the day we will be doing full power tests.
Oh, and I should mention one other leetle factoid.
The device, has already caused a number of accidents, that cost the lives of people during the construction, and even though I doubt it will destroy the earth, I think it will fail in its mission. (Find Higs).
If something should fail, such as the magnets that direct the beam and the particle beam hits the inside of the device, it could be catastrophic.
Especially if the beam blows a hole in the helium containment tube and makes direct contact with the liquid helium.
If that happens, lets just say you will hear about it. :-)
-gc
I would also like to point out they have to align the particle streams yet, AND this will take some time before they turn the energy levels up on the device to maximum, which as many have pointed out, is the "new territory" area.
Not until the device is at full power and doing collisions is there really any concern.
I suspect full power, "universe shattering" tests won't take place until sometime in December at the earliest.
-Hackus
I think a political body of some sort would serve the I.T. Industry well.
I do not buy into the belief that is being peddled here by the "all UNIONS are bad crowd" that if a UNION where to develop it would ship all the jobs over seas.
What a simplistic view of the profession.
We are not building widgets here, we are building very complex pieces of software. That includes a large amount of cultural restrictions, logistics for example that are totally unique from country to country.
I doubt it would be cost effective to move on a large scale that much development work out of the country.
Besides, the concept that our jobs are safe without a UNION cannot be logical if the same people believe the jobs will be shipped over seas if we form a UNION.
That IS circular logic.
They are already and will continue to be even without a UNION.
I think the working conditions for I.T. are poor, and so is the pay. Normally with increased responsibility, comes increase in pay.
That is not happening, instead, pay is being reduced and hours are becoming longer with individuals "expected" to work continuously 24x7.
Individuals are even forced to use their own vehicles to drive between sites with no reimbursement for vehicle wear and tear for example.
There is very little actual educational reimbursement in the industry. I say actual because I have seen LOTS of companies proclaim that they offer tuition reimbursement but when you actually request it, there are problems in getting it. Usually ending up with no pay raises "Oh, you got tution last year right?" or worse management sees that as less time for you to work 24/7 on the business. So, you end up getting labled as "semi" employable with no real long standing future in the company.
From my perspective as I leave this industry and go back to school for all the degree work I want to finish, I find I will not be missing my job much and will be doing much of the job I had previously as a private practice if I do software work or networking work.
That way when I wake up at 3AM, and I WILL get paid for it.
Try and replace that system from India once.
I would also like to remind people that the world is not as stable as many would think it is. This era where you can do commerce is entirely dependant on good relations.
That could change very quickly and ALL of the companies assets overseas could and probably WOULD be confiscated.
There are real tangible risks to offshoring. Offshoring is a young practice and as energy costs skyrocket, it gets progressively harder to have something made overseas shipped thousands and thousands of miles to its destination.
At a certain point this WILL breakdown totally and it will be impossible.
My guess is when oil hits about $180 a barrel, which in my opinion is not very far away.
-Hack
Now just wait a second here.
The assumption that people are stupid is pretty simplistic.
Let me offer a counter view of this so called "stupidity"?
Lets start out with the so called financial crisis right now and how this is being published as "a bunch of stupid americans that bought homes at outrageous terms."
Terms I would like to point out set by the Banks.
The capital markets in this country are not being whacked by home housing with little $200,000 dollar mortgage payments by little Americans.
They are whacked because Wall Street destroyed this countrys financial base by doing Multi Billion Dollar deals with no money down, or just make believe stock options for all these corporate mergers we have had in the past 10 years.
Thats the REAL problem.
This is a CLUB. The CLUB is privatizing our monetary system to an extreme by centralizing the authority of all money decisions into about 8 peoples hands.
These top 8 people work at the Federal Reserve and are above and beyond the law, answer to NO ONE and control every single dollar in every single wallet.
Perhaps if the system wasn't so centralized, and the crooks were not running everything, people wouldn't have to be so "smart" to "plan" for retirement.
As it is right now, unless you are part of the club, you stand a VERY good chance of having most of your retirement EVAPORATE over the years.
I mean, look at some of this nonsense even on the financial news channels about "staying in there for the long haul".
Cisco stocks will NEVER recover from their highs 8 years ago, no matter what the long haul is for example.
The best thing you can do to preserve your investment is to put at least some of your money into gold, and for god sakes avoid 401K plans and big investment houses.
This gets complicated. But like I said, if you could actually trust the people now days that deal with your money, you wouldn't need to be a investment "geek" to actually keep yourself solvent through your retirement years.
-Hack
On the contrary, the ring would signify that all things must end, and nothing lasts forever.
-Hack
Awesome, spectacular and I hope everyone buys atheros based chipsets.
Hopefully with a concerted effort we can provide atheros enough cash to buy broadcom, fire its board, and can its management.
Then, have a massive open source party wuv fest with opening the broadcom chipsets and publishing the specifications.
I am pleased that at least, some manufacturers are beginning to see, that open hardware yields better drivers and better experience for the consumer.
I hope it continues.
VIA, Atheros look like they just "get it".
Awesome.
-Hackus
Too bad the display only works with Windows. :-)
-gc
Oh really now.
Does anyone here find this all that surprising?
The odds are other life does exist, get over it.
Not only that, I bet they are better than we are, absolutely laugh at our television broadcasts of our "top" scientists BY DECREE, telling us that the distances between blah blah blah and that is totally impossible to cross such distances....blah blah blah....
Really lets put this in perspective.
In less than 120 years, we went from Orville and Co, to the moon.
Our basic understanding of the very structure of the universe and the forces and materials of things go together is infantile at best.
I mean, we have no concept of what gravity is, although we know enough to describe it and how it acts on objects.
We have no clue about the various types of materials the universe is made out of or their properties. I mean dark energy, matter etc have practically just been discovered for example.
Now take a sentient being other than humans, and instead of 150 years to figure out how to travel in space, give them say an extra million years. Even, dare I say a BILLION years of time.
Point is, you no longer have just ET's, you have gods with a small g walking around up there.
If we can do this rate of advance in just 150 years, imagine what ET's could have done with a billion years.
What is possible would be pretty much fantasy to us.
If there are ET's and Earth is not a rare occurrence, they must be all over the place.
I bet we are just the ants in their backyards. :-)
-Hack
PS: I hope there is something better than humans out there. We suck.
This is the most depressing news I have heard so far today.
I think I might use a sick day.
How depressing.
Hans, you fool.
-Hack