All of the developers in my area have... overclocked i7 985's... increasing hardware definitely increases productivity?
How does increasing the number of crashes that have to be debugged increase productivity, crashes that are overclocking related and not the result of an actual flaw in the software?
Your IT guys do realize that overclocking related errors are:
- not necessarily obvious, sometimes they are simply incorrect answers (2+2=5)
- not necessarily testable, errors can require an unpredictable string of instructions or data that vary from machine to machine
Overclocking induced errors represent a range of failures, starting with the very subtle slightly incorrect answer at some amount of overclocking and progressing to the catastrophic crash inducing error at a greater level of overclocking. Where the subtle range appears and how wide it is can't be predicted, nor is it necessarily fixed (does your office ambient temperature vary over the year?).
Brain-dead PHB side
- "My employees are complaining that you IT guys are getting in the way of their work! Fix it so they can install things!"
IT response:
- "Please fill in your department's account number here and sign here for billing and reporting purposes:"
Create an official looking form for the PHB to sign that acknowledges that allowing a worker to install will expose corporate property (employee computer, company servers, other employee computers) to malware and security breaches. Furthermore indicate that any IT time required to cleanup malware and resolve security breaches will be billed to his department and noted in IT's periodic reports.
I may be biased, but apps will eventually displace handhelds. It is just part of digital convergence, we will ultimately only be carrying around a single pocket sized electronic device.
Call me when you can touch type at >50 wpm with a pocket-sized keyboard.
*queue response with laser keyboard*
Have you seen the response times on those laser keyboards? They're hardly perfect.
Note "handhelds" above, I'm not saying laptops will be part of this convergence. Netbooks might have problems due to tablets and for those times where 50wpm may be useful I've found a tablet plus a bluetooth keyboard to work quite well.
The only point I ever saw for them was the coolness factor. That was back in the 1980s, though. With today's tech, a dedicated calculator seems... at best, quaint.
OK, as the publisher of an iPhone calculator (Perpenso Calc RPN, 5 modes: Scientific Stats Business Hex Bill) I may be biased, but apps will eventually displace handhelds. It is just part of digital convergence, we will ultimately only be carrying around a single pocket sized electronic device.
Regarding web access during tests, things like "airplane mode" where all the wireless circuitry is disabled will do. It will take time for teachers/professors to catch up but a few years ago I had professors who were letting us use laptops with the caveat that wireless be disabled.
Hypothetical causes of the war are irrelevant... They could have quite literally been starved into submission had they only possessed a coastal defense.
Hypothetical outcomes are irrelevant to the point being made.
There is nothing really hypothetical about it. It was the stated intent of Germany and the stated fear of the British at the time.
"At the start of World War II (1939), the United Kingdom imported 20 million tons of foodstuffs per year (70%), including more than 50% of its meat, 70% of its cheese and sugar, nearly 80% of fruits and about 70% of cereals and fats. The population would have been somewhere between 46 million (46,038 thousand as measured in the 1931 census) and 52 million (53,225 thousand as measured in the 1951 census).[3] It was one of the principal strategies of the Axis to attack shipping bound for the United Kingdom, restricting British industry and potentially starving the nation into submission." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
Clearly you need 4 years of latin, a full understanding of conjugations and declensions, and several years of translation experience to come up with brand names.... Strikes me as a rather wasted education if thats what it ends up being used on.
Actually I took spanish in school and used an online latin dictionary when coming up with a name.
Work was not encouraged when I was in high school. You had to get permission, have and maintain sufficiently high grades, etc. I'm not sure that sports spending is out of control. There may be quite a bit more administrative overhead in the US, plus corruption. Top administrators in Los Angeles get a car with driver, have spent $100,000+ on office remodeling, etc. Add in various vanity projects that inflate the costs of schools and other infrastructure. With respect to unions the government made the same mistakes that general motors and other corporations did. Decades ago they traded long term retirement benefits for short term concessions on "today's" wages (shifting compensation to the future), giving little regard to the bill that their successors would have to pay decades in the future. The union leaders are often a bit like the administrators too, seeking to protect and enlarge their personal power, position and expense accounts rather than represent the interests of educators and students.
Maybe things could be summarized that the politicians are directly running the schools rather than the educators.
However that surrenders the initiative to the enemy. Something that from Mahan to Clausewitz to Sun Tzu has been taught to be a losing strategy.
Yeah, man, look at Solidarity in Poland, or Gandhi's movement in India! They left the enemy all kinds of initiative, and look how badly that ended for them.
Actually Solidarity and Gandhi had the initiative. Initiative of action is not necessarily expressed as combat.
The 6502 and 8088 are unrelated.
The 68000 in the Mac was PDP-11 like.
6502 was my first assembly language, 68000 my second and then I had the assembly language class at the university and we used the PDP-11. Afterwards I did x86 (16-bit). I expect that if I had started with x86 I would have hated assembly language like everyone else. For those of you thinking x86 is not so bad, let me guess, you started in the 32-bit era?:-)
Funny, though, those 'open' Macs only appeared after Jobs was gone!
The tower form factor Power Macs (G3 and up) and the Mac Pros will open, have slots, etc. Jobs seems just fine with the models targeting "professionals" to be designed to be worked on by end users. Jobs' pre-Mac baby, the Lisa (1983), had slots IIRC. The Lisa was also targeted towards "professionals".
When Apple hardware was open. Apple ][ computers had their wiring diagram on the inside of the lid (which required no screws to open!). 8 slots, baby, *eight*, to fill with whatever you wanted. No voiding the warranty by opening it up, etc. I later went Amiga and didn't look back until recently. I got a nice ROM 03 Apple//gs on eBay, and even got a nice TransWarp GS card for it. Hot stuff!:) Never was a fan of Macs. *shrug*
I've owned a few Macs over the years and some models had slots, easy opening cases, no warranty issues with 3rd party cards, etc. This is still true for towers.
Other Macs are sealed boxes. Just like the laptop PCs that represent the majority of the computer marketplace. As a nerd I have an affinity for things I can tweak but I have to admit this represents a minority opinion and that sealed boxes make sense for typical users (cost reductions, simplified supply chain, etc).
Also, Biology including evolution, Astronomy, Chemistry; Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus; Computer programming; Print shop, metal shop, and actual knowledge about health. If you want to see more of that and less "social engineering", then more money should be put into them.
Other than a self-serving advertisement for your product, what was your point?
Are you having a forrest/trees moment? I think: "Have you tried to come up with a short decent sounding company name that is both trademark-able and has an available.com domain? I found it easier to accomplish with Latin than English." described the point quite well. Apologies if an actual example of such a strategy offended you.
If they don't need the knowledge, then forcing them to memorize it (which they would likely soon forget due to the fact that it isn't important to them) would be rather useless and counterproductive, would it not? I'd say some of the more advanced math classes should indeed be optional because many people won't really use the knowledge.
I would not advocate that everyone take college prep math classes. What I would advocate is that everyone take some sort of math class. Schools should have two math tracks, college prep and practical/vocational, and a student should be taking classes in one or the other. This is not an original idea, I'm basically describing what my grandmother told me about HS in her day. The practical/vocational classes included things like balancing a checkbook, calculating interest on a loan, calculating a bill with credits and discounts, calculating your paycheck given overtime and sunday pay, area and volume calculations you might use in the home or on the farm, fraction based calculations you might use as a carpenter, machinist or cook, etc.
I realize that there are spreadsheets, apps, etc for many of these things but in learning how to do these calculations yourself you also learn the mechanics of modern society. If more people had had such practical/vocational math when in HS then perhaps adjustable rate mortgages would not have been such a mystery?
Latin is very important today, especially with respect to the web. Have you tried to come up with a short decent sounding company name that is both trademark-able and has an available.com domain? I found it easier to accomplish with Latin than English, Perpenso.
No, what I am "calling for" would be a US Military that is designed and positioned to defend the US at a reasonable price, rather than one that is designed and positioned to "project power" around the world with a correspondingly staggering cost, both monetary and otherwise.
Again, if a nation requires international trade for vital supplies or for economic vitality then it must be able to defend its merchant fleet. A Jeffersonian shallow water navy was tried in the US and the people of its day considered it a failure and decided that a deep water navy was a necessity *and* this was at a time in US history where the country was still isolationist in nature and believed in avoiding foreign entanglements.
Winston Churchill was a smart man, but he was not one that limited his military ambitions to defense by any stretch of the imagination. He declared war against Germany, not the other way around, and his goal was to defeat her, not to defend and preserve Britannia. So naturally he would see it that way - but his viewpoint isnt very relevant to the defense of a Republic which "does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
That is quite the dodge. Hypothetical causes of the war are irrelevant to the point being made, not even tangential. The fact remains that Britain was under serious threat due to its loss of seaborne supplies. They could have quite literally been starved into submission had they only possessed a coastal defense.
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All of the developers in my area have ... overclocked i7 985's ... increasing hardware definitely increases productivity?
How does increasing the number of crashes that have to be debugged increase productivity, crashes that are overclocking related and not the result of an actual flaw in the software?
Your IT guys do realize that overclocking related errors are:
- not necessarily obvious, sometimes they are simply incorrect answers (2+2=5)
- not necessarily testable, errors can require an unpredictable string of instructions or data that vary from machine to machine
Overclocking induced errors represent a range of failures, starting with the very subtle slightly incorrect answer at some amount of overclocking and progressing to the catastrophic crash inducing error at a greater level of overclocking. Where the subtle range appears and how wide it is can't be predicted, nor is it necessarily fixed (does your office ambient temperature vary over the year?).
WTF is a PHB?
Start reading: http://www.dilbert.com/
Brain-dead PHB side
- "My employees are complaining that you IT guys are getting in the way of their work! Fix it so they can install things!"
IT response:
- "Please fill in your department's account number here and sign here for billing and reporting purposes:"
Create an official looking form for the PHB to sign that acknowledges that allowing a worker to install will expose corporate property (employee computer, company servers, other employee computers) to malware and security breaches. Furthermore indicate that any IT time required to cleanup malware and resolve security breaches will be billed to his department and noted in IT's periodic reports.
I may be biased, but apps will eventually displace handhelds. It is just part of digital convergence, we will ultimately only be carrying around a single pocket sized electronic device.
Call me when you can touch type at >50 wpm with a pocket-sized keyboard. *queue response with laser keyboard* Have you seen the response times on those laser keyboards? They're hardly perfect.
Note "handhelds" above, I'm not saying laptops will be part of this convergence. Netbooks might have problems due to tablets and for those times where 50wpm may be useful I've found a tablet plus a bluetooth keyboard to work quite well.
The only point I ever saw for them was the coolness factor. That was back in the 1980s, though. With today's tech, a dedicated calculator seems... at best, quaint.
OK, as the publisher of an iPhone calculator (Perpenso Calc RPN, 5 modes: Scientific Stats Business Hex Bill) I may be biased, but apps will eventually displace handhelds. It is just part of digital convergence, we will ultimately only be carrying around a single pocket sized electronic device.
Regarding web access during tests, things like "airplane mode" where all the wireless circuitry is disabled will do. It will take time for teachers/professors to catch up but a few years ago I had professors who were letting us use laptops with the caveat that wireless be disabled.
Or you could just use Google Translate and Google Books (to browse dictionnaries). It worked for me and Atramenta :p
What makes you think I did anything beyond going to the University of Notre Dame's online latin dictionary?
Hypothetical causes of the war are irrelevant... They could have quite literally been starved into submission had they only possessed a coastal defense.
Hypothetical outcomes are irrelevant to the point being made.
There is nothing really hypothetical about it. It was the stated intent of Germany and the stated fear of the British at the time.
"At the start of World War II (1939), the United Kingdom imported 20 million tons of foodstuffs per year (70%), including more than 50% of its meat, 70% of its cheese and sugar, nearly 80% of fruits and about 70% of cereals and fats. The population would have been somewhere between 46 million (46,038 thousand as measured in the 1931 census) and 52 million (53,225 thousand as measured in the 1951 census).[3] It was one of the principal strategies of the Axis to attack shipping bound for the United Kingdom, restricting British industry and potentially starving the nation into submission."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
Clearly you need 4 years of latin, a full understanding of conjugations and declensions, and several years of translation experience to come up with brand names.... Strikes me as a rather wasted education if thats what it ends up being used on.
Actually I took spanish in school and used an online latin dictionary when coming up with a name.
Work was not encouraged when I was in high school. You had to get permission, have and maintain sufficiently high grades, etc. I'm not sure that sports spending is out of control. There may be quite a bit more administrative overhead in the US, plus corruption. Top administrators in Los Angeles get a car with driver, have spent $100,000+ on office remodeling, etc. Add in various vanity projects that inflate the costs of schools and other infrastructure. With respect to unions the government made the same mistakes that general motors and other corporations did. Decades ago they traded long term retirement benefits for short term concessions on "today's" wages (shifting compensation to the future), giving little regard to the bill that their successors would have to pay decades in the future. The union leaders are often a bit like the administrators too, seeking to protect and enlarge their personal power, position and expense accounts rather than represent the interests of educators and students.
Maybe things could be summarized that the politicians are directly running the schools rather than the educators.
However that surrenders the initiative to the enemy. Something that from Mahan to Clausewitz to Sun Tzu has been taught to be a losing strategy.
Yeah, man, look at Solidarity in Poland, or Gandhi's movement in India! They left the enemy all kinds of initiative, and look how badly that ended for them.
Actually Solidarity and Gandhi had the initiative. Initiative of action is not necessarily expressed as combat.
The 6502 and 8088 are unrelated.
:-)
The 68000 in the Mac was PDP-11 like.
6502 was my first assembly language, 68000 my second and then I had the assembly language class at the university and we used the PDP-11. Afterwards I did x86 (16-bit). I expect that if I had started with x86 I would have hated assembly language like everyone else. For those of you thinking x86 is not so bad, let me guess, you started in the 32-bit era?
(cost reductions)
This is Apple we're talking about.
Cost reductions not price reductions. Costs are what Apple pays for components, assembly, shipping, etc. :-)
What's the point when 90% of the population has no clue what it means, and can't be bothered to look it up?
An easy-to-speak word that has no recognizable meaning can be a useful brand name. You get to define its meaning.
Funny, though, those 'open' Macs only appeared after Jobs was gone!
The tower form factor Power Macs (G3 and up) and the Mac Pros will open, have slots, etc. Jobs seems just fine with the models targeting "professionals" to be designed to be worked on by end users. Jobs' pre-Mac baby, the Lisa (1983), had slots IIRC. The Lisa was also targeted towards "professionals".
When Apple hardware was open. Apple ][ computers had their wiring diagram on the inside of the lid (which required no screws to open!). 8 slots, baby, *eight*, to fill with whatever you wanted. No voiding the warranty by opening it up, etc. I later went Amiga and didn't look back until recently. I got a nice ROM 03 Apple //gs on eBay, and even got a nice TransWarp GS card for it. Hot stuff! :) Never was a fan of Macs. *shrug*
I've owned a few Macs over the years and some models had slots, easy opening cases, no warranty issues with 3rd party cards, etc. This is still true for towers.
Other Macs are sealed boxes. Just like the laptop PCs that represent the majority of the computer marketplace. As a nerd I have an affinity for things I can tweak but I have to admit this represents a minority opinion and that sealed boxes make sense for typical users (cost reductions, simplified supply chain, etc).
Also, Biology including evolution, Astronomy, Chemistry; Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus; Computer programming; Print shop, metal shop, and actual knowledge about health. If you want to see more of that and less "social engineering", then more money should be put into them.
The US spending per student is already comparable to the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, etc. Perhaps the problem is not the current spending level but how/where it is being spent?
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.PRIM.PC.ZS/countries/1W?display=default
... languages other than English would give you the same answer, which proves the claim
is invalid.
My comment was not meant to be taken as exclusive to latin, nor was it meant to be taken all that seriously. :-)
Other than a self-serving advertisement for your product, what was your point?
Are you having a forrest/trees moment? I think: "Have you tried to come up with a short decent sounding company name that is both trademark-able and has an available .com domain? I found it easier to accomplish with Latin than English." described the point quite well. Apologies if an actual example of such a strategy offended you.
If they don't need the knowledge, then forcing them to memorize it (which they would likely soon forget due to the fact that it isn't important to them) would be rather useless and counterproductive, would it not? I'd say some of the more advanced math classes should indeed be optional because many people won't really use the knowledge.
I would not advocate that everyone take college prep math classes. What I would advocate is that everyone take some sort of math class. Schools should have two math tracks, college prep and practical/vocational, and a student should be taking classes in one or the other. This is not an original idea, I'm basically describing what my grandmother told me about HS in her day. The practical/vocational classes included things like balancing a checkbook, calculating interest on a loan, calculating a bill with credits and discounts, calculating your paycheck given overtime and sunday pay, area and volume calculations you might use in the home or on the farm, fraction based calculations you might use as a carpenter, machinist or cook, etc.
I realize that there are spreadsheets, apps, etc for many of these things but in learning how to do these calculations yourself you also learn the mechanics of modern society. If more people had had such practical/vocational math when in HS then perhaps adjustable rate mortgages would not have been such a mystery?
... manual numeric math problems (cube root by hand, et al), who gives a shit?
Someone with dead batteries during an exam? :-)
Yet it's interesting to note that they were expected to know Greek and Latin from high school (or equivalent.)
There was also a much greater emphasis on Geography back then. Nowadays that's an optional course.
Math is an optional course today. Last I heard my former HS is only requiring one year to graduate, pathetic.
What use is Latin and Greek today?
Latin is very important today, especially with respect to the web. Have you tried to come up with a short decent sounding company name that is both trademark-able and has an available .com domain? I found it easier to accomplish with Latin than English, Perpenso.
I wonder if they were allowed to use calculators?
I don't think servants were allowed to assist you during the exam. Calculators were people back in those days. :-)
No, what I am "calling for" would be a US Military that is designed and positioned to defend the US at a reasonable price, rather than one that is designed and positioned to "project power" around the world with a correspondingly staggering cost, both monetary and otherwise.
Again, if a nation requires international trade for vital supplies or for economic vitality then it must be able to defend its merchant fleet. A Jeffersonian shallow water navy was tried in the US and the people of its day considered it a failure and decided that a deep water navy was a necessity *and* this was at a time in US history where the country was still isolationist in nature and believed in avoiding foreign entanglements.
Winston Churchill was a smart man, but he was not one that limited his military ambitions to defense by any stretch of the imagination. He declared war against Germany, not the other way around, and his goal was to defeat her, not to defend and preserve Britannia. So naturally he would see it that way - but his viewpoint isnt very relevant to the defense of a Republic which "does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."
That is quite the dodge. Hypothetical causes of the war are irrelevant to the point being made, not even tangential. The fact remains that Britain was under serious threat due to its loss of seaborne supplies. They could have quite literally been starved into submission had they only possessed a coastal defense.