Lest we forget the "Brazilian killer bee" problem, (which, I believe is still an issue), was the result of a good intention to improve the bee breed by increasing their active response via cross-breeding with more aggressive African strains. Then (as the story goes) someone (c1957) left off the queen excluder (grill that prevents from the queen from becoming a "free agent") and as a result dangerous bees escaped into the wild and several terrible horror films were born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
All this competition for coolness before it even becomes possible for most of us to compete. ("the rankings of various G+ users with big followings. I currently have a measly 400 or so.") So by the time it comes available to us, sans-culottes, why should we bother?...sort've reminds one of Bitcoin in a way really.
((letsee... average human male mortality 74 - current_age + 2011....))
In the year two thousand forty-two Man shall ride as eagles flew On monopoles of magnets blue Machine and man as one will hew ...yadda...yadda... ---Mother Shitdon
Some do and some don't. Plus there's the added complexity that a "pure" vertical merger is likely only a theoretical construct. (beware of making flat "X does not cause Y" statements; particularly in something so hideously complex as a market economy) There is an endless supply of scholarly papers on how "vertical" mergers reduce competition: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vertical+mergers+competition...i suppose you could just flat-out deny them all.
A wise old CEO wheezed unto me: "A merger is a risk to everyone except one of the two CEOs - to everyone else it is a danger". Mergers reduce competition, so the market loses; mergers cost stockholders, at least in the short-run; mergers are engines of redundancy so it's a threat to all the employees. The only possible virtual gain is an investors' promise of less competition in the marketplace. Almost everyone loses. So the next time you read: "Massive-corp to buy out Macro-corp!" try not to cheer for the two original owners who get their one-time lottery prize, but instead pause in lament for the majority and progress in general.
It was some years ago now, but i want everyone to know that i (*me*) devised a method for the reverse process. I'm still seeking my patent on the methodology.
"He said businesses should worry about security and privacy of data, rather than where it is stored." -- but those aren't separate concepts. Should I worry about security if my data is located at Sony corp? Or privacy if my data is on Facebook? security and privacy is very much a function of "where", and of: "who buys out the company next". The only where where one might have some sense of security or privacy is on a drive that you control.
If "sustainable" means will 10% of the human populace dies for every 9% added from now on,...nah, quite the reverse. If "sustainable" means we'll be increasingly discomfited if we keep doing things the way we have been, then sure that was reached about the time the Bee-Gees were popular. In the long run either the population growth will be halted by uncaring conditions, or we'll have to pursue the Hawking plan and "get our butts to Mars"... and lo': the states just retired its last functional human orbiter..yep.
the degree matters. the application material matters. the stated experience matters. OCP CCNA CCDP CCENT CCSP ACTC...http://www.all-acronyms.com/tag/certification/ doesn't matter so much (or in one case i know of actually weighed negatively)
Around my (admittedly small-er) shop we don't count certification for anything. If we want a programmer we ask for an example code and talk with the applicant. If we want a web page developer we ask for an example web-page and talk with the applicant. The key begin: "we talk with the applicant". After a dozen years of doing this i can assure you there is *no* correlation between who we hired and whether they were "certified" by any private interest. I'm sure this isn't true for larger companies (YMMV etc), but if i were you, i'd get the foundations from a college degree, develop a "portfolio" on your own, and save your certification money.
I built a small (32 node) Beowulf cluster for an informatics group at the University of Bonn. We started off with a SuSE, discovered that it was hard to get some drivers compiled, then went to Debian, discovered that some of the boot up scripts were a bit troublesome to keep up high availability, then went to Gentoo ahref=http://www.gentoo.org/rel=url2html-17894http://www.gentoo.org//> and were quite pleased how *everything*, including rebuilding a node up from the boot loader, could be scripted. Of course every situation has its unique hazards, but if you want tight system with everything under your control, it's hard to beat Gentoo, (however good ol' Debian came very close).
WHEREAS: Gerrymandering has become an overt indication of politics at its most revolting it is herein resolved to limit the the fractal dimension of any established voting district to not exceed the ratio of the logarithm of the number of House Representatives to the logarithm of the population of the Senate - sine-die
I don't get it either. I was hoping someone here in the comment-zone would have some insight into what's so @#$!'n wrong with having an URL bar, (so far no luck).
It reminds me of an old vaudeville routine where a advertisement or contract (e.g. A Night at the Opera... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFqFp1FKrEc/) is torn away bit by bit for vague reasons and ends up with nothing.
Besides, a Saturday apocalypse just feels wrong. When was the last time you wished it could all end on a Saturday...i asks ya? Tuesday... *tuesday* would be a good Götterdämmerung kinda day. Long about that stupid company meeting next tuesday that would be best.
Forth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)/ was designed to run on (albeit early) embedded platforms. Extensible, easy to learn, easy to implement. I guess it's just the RPN that scares folks off? ("no you old fool! modern processors are optimized away from stack intensive use!")
you just know that the perceived economic windfall will eventually hit upon a commercially viable (if physically debilitating) implementation of telesex. oh how the voyeur regulators and social sermonizers will rage upon that day. (just hope i live to see it)
Two things seem to track with successful scientific software:
1. A center grant. These are understandably difficult to get, and typically require some venerable central Dumbledore (preferably with nobel), but they get around the insightful: "Science wants novelty, not quality" comment. That is, a center grant is designed to allow money and publications to flow for development without overt novelty.
2. Keep the software modular, well-documented, and open. Publish everything about every interface, file format, and provide a dazzling array of examples and tutorials. As an excellent example of this see the CCP4 suite of software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Computational_Project_Number_4/
As other commenter have sensibly pointed out the way good software is typically produced these days requires a large commercial effort; but this represents the current path of least resistance, and not historical impossibility. Good academic software, albeit rare, is often the most amazing in scope and design.
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(as long as they're up there) I'd rather we cover all the roofs in sunny places with photovoltaic cells.
Lest we forget the "Brazilian killer bee" problem, (which, I believe is still an issue), was the result of a good intention to improve the bee breed by increasing their active response via cross-breeding with more aggressive African strains. Then (as the story goes) someone (c1957) left off the queen excluder (grill that prevents from the queen from becoming a "free agent") and as a result dangerous bees escaped into the wild and several terrible horror films were born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
All this competition for coolness before it even becomes possible for most of us to compete. ("the rankings of various G+ users with big followings. I currently have a measly 400 or so.") So by the time it comes available to us, sans-culottes, why should we bother? ...sort've reminds one of Bitcoin in a way really.
[curvy bend] Task 4.2.31: Write a LALR parser for MIX in Javascript
errorbars! don't believe no made-up statistics without they also have made-up errorbars!
Some do and some don't. Plus there's the added complexity that a "pure" vertical merger is likely only a theoretical construct. (beware of making flat "X does not cause Y" statements; particularly in something so hideously complex as a market economy) There is an endless supply of scholarly papers on how "vertical" mergers reduce competition: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=vertical+mergers+competition ...i suppose you could just flat-out deny them all.
A wise old CEO wheezed unto me: "A merger is a risk to everyone except one of the two CEOs - to everyone else it is a danger". Mergers reduce competition, so the market loses; mergers cost stockholders, at least in the short-run; mergers are engines of redundancy so it's a threat to all the employees. The only possible virtual gain is an investors' promise of less competition in the marketplace. Almost everyone loses. So the next time you read: "Massive-corp to buy out Macro-corp!" try not to cheer for the two original owners who get their one-time lottery prize, but instead pause in lament for the majority and progress in general.
It was some years ago now, but i want everyone to know that i (*me*) devised a method for the reverse process. I'm still seeking my patent on the methodology.
"He said businesses should worry about security and privacy of data, rather than where it is stored." -- but those aren't separate concepts. Should I worry about security if my data is located at Sony corp? Or privacy if my data is on Facebook? security and privacy is very much a function of "where", and of: "who buys out the company next". The only where where one might have some sense of security or privacy is on a drive that you control.
If "sustainable" means will 10% of the human populace dies for every 9% added from now on, ...nah, quite the reverse. If "sustainable" means we'll be increasingly discomfited if we keep doing things the way we have been, then sure that was reached about the time the Bee-Gees were popular. In the long run either the population growth will be halted by uncaring conditions, or we'll have to pursue the Hawking plan and "get our butts to Mars"... and lo': the states just retired its last functional human orbiter ..yep.
i got in trouble here the last time when i used google's URL shortener so i just thought wtf... but your tips are much appreciated, thankee
"A novel type of electricity storage was recently added to the New York power grid ..." Flywheels as primary energy storage devices have been in even the popular literature for several decades http://books.google.com/books?id=kgEAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=popular+science+flywheel&source=bl&ots=9-KZjC7q03&sig=PgfEqfglwmcBdVGThAF7U4Vgsos&hl=en&ei=72jmTeanIqrbiALVtuTQCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=popular%20science%20flywheel&f=false/ and for capacitor-like mechanical smoothing operation since probably the first reciprocating engines. so let'say "novel for this particular application", (and i'm not so sure of that)
the degree matters. the application material matters. the stated experience matters. OCP CCNA CCDP CCENT CCSP ACTC...http://www.all-acronyms.com/tag/certification/ doesn't matter so much (or in one case i know of actually weighed negatively)
Around my (admittedly small-er) shop we don't count certification for anything. If we want a programmer we ask for an example code and talk with the applicant. If we want a web page developer we ask for an example web-page and talk with the applicant. The key begin: "we talk with the applicant". After a dozen years of doing this i can assure you there is *no* correlation between who we hired and whether they were "certified" by any private interest. I'm sure this isn't true for larger companies (YMMV etc), but if i were you, i'd get the foundations from a college degree, develop a "portfolio" on your own, and save your certification money.
1. Find Forrest Mims
...
2. Make him CEO
4. Profits (from DIY if profits from DIY are possible)
I built a small (32 node) Beowulf cluster for an informatics group at the University of Bonn. We started off with a SuSE, discovered that it was hard to get some drivers compiled, then went to Debian, discovered that some of the boot up scripts were a bit troublesome to keep up high availability, then went to Gentoo ahref=http://www.gentoo.org/rel=url2html-17894http://www.gentoo.org/ /> and were quite pleased how *everything*, including rebuilding a node up from the boot loader, could be scripted. Of course every situation has its unique hazards, but if you want tight system with everything under your control, it's hard to beat Gentoo, (however good ol' Debian came very close).
WHEREAS: Gerrymandering has become an overt indication of politics at its most revolting it is herein resolved to limit the the fractal dimension of any established voting district to not exceed the ratio of the logarithm of the number of House Representatives to the logarithm of the population of the Senate - sine-die
I don't get it either. I was hoping someone here in the comment-zone would have some insight into what's so @#$!'n wrong with having an URL bar, (so far no luck). It reminds me of an old vaudeville routine where a advertisement or contract (e.g. A Night at the Opera ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFqFp1FKrEc/) is torn away bit by bit for vague reasons and ends up with nothing.
Besides, a Saturday apocalypse just feels wrong. When was the last time you wished it could all end on a Saturday...i asks ya? Tuesday... *tuesday* would be a good Götterdämmerung kinda day. Long about that stupid company meeting next tuesday that would be best.
yeah! it along with the later one by Brodie always comes to mind when i'm writing embedded applications (in either of the disparate senses of "embedded". should be a clear way to specify them .. machine-embedded or Gui-bedded ?)
http://www.amazon.com/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-Design-Implementation/dp/007038360X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1305766293&sr=8-1/
Forth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)/ was designed to run on (albeit early) embedded platforms. Extensible, easy to learn, easy to implement. I guess it's just the RPN that scares folks off? ("no you old fool! modern processors are optimized away from stack intensive use!")
"Fry: I’m not a robot like you. I don’t like having disks crammed into me unless they’re Oreos, and then only in the mouth."
you just know that the perceived economic windfall will eventually hit upon a commercially viable (if physically debilitating) implementation of telesex. oh how the voyeur regulators and social sermonizers will rage upon that day. (just hope i live to see it)
1. A center grant. These are understandably difficult to get, and typically require some venerable central Dumbledore (preferably with nobel), but they get around the insightful: "Science wants novelty, not quality" comment. That is, a center grant is designed to allow money and publications to flow for development without overt novelty.
2. Keep the software modular, well-documented, and open. Publish everything about every interface, file format, and provide a dazzling array of examples and tutorials. As an excellent example of this see the CCP4 suite of software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Computational_Project_Number_4/
As other commenter have sensibly pointed out the way good software is typically produced these days requires a large commercial effort; but this represents the current path of least resistance, and not historical impossibility. Good academic software, albeit rare, is often the most amazing in scope and design.