If you think it is the lack of sound in the engine that will be a problem, you obviously don't know bikers. First, the thing can only do 50 mph, which makes it useless on the highway, and second, it only has a range of 100 miles. My bike is a gas guzzler (for a motorcycle) and I can still get 150+ miles on a tank of gas. It seems that work on a fuel cell motorcycle is kind of a waste considering many motorcycles get upwards of 50 mpg already. I think research should be concentrated in automobiles.
I agree that GPA and ability to program don't correlate well, but that was my experience. Perhaps it was other factors that influenced the salary decision, but the GPA was the only big difference. My GPA was on my resume when I first got out of college. Now, with 20 years programming experience, nobody cares what my GPA was back then.
I went to a school that was not known for its CS program and it didn't seem to matter to anyone I interviewed with. What did matter was my grades. With a 3.0 average I was getting offers 30-40% below what the 4.0 students were.
Otherwise it depends on what you plan to do with the degree. If you want to work in the MIT AI Lab, then you better go to a name program and get perfect grades. If you will be happy being a developer somewhere writing financial software, then I don't think it matters.
I also think that showing people the practical things you did while you were in college, not just class work, matters. I wrote a FORTH compiler (while, interpreter, really) from scratch and I think that impressed people that I could apply all the theory I had learned.
Amen. Why do people think that just because THEY don't want to watch the television, NOBODY wants to. I travel alone a lot and I like to watch the airport televisions (which are usually tuned to CNN Headline News) to keep up on what's happening. These TVs aren't everywhere, so if you don't like it, go where there isn't one and let the rest of us watch.
That is true, but taking out communications these days is not such an easy task. We have such a wide spread communications network with so many carriers that you would have to seize too many places to be practical. In the old days you just seized the central telephone exchange, the (most likely) single television station and perhaps the radio stations.
Flash mobs only pose a security risk if you are a fascist. I think with the advent of the cell phone and text messaging, the possibility of a coup d'etat in the developed world is slim to none. Before any would be junta could consolidate power there would be protests in the street, largely due to cell phones and text messaging. I think this a good thing. It safeguards our freedoms and if a few celebrities have to put up with mobs of teenage girls, then so be it.
Gary Kildall had the opportunity to license DR-DOS to IBM and he blew it! He didn't sign the non-disclosure and Gates did. He sent IBM to Gates.
I respect Gary because he actually wrote DR-DOS, whereas Bill Gates only licensed DOS from SCC and then sold the rights to IBM. That makes Gary Kildall a technical wiz and Bill Gates a business wiz.
Typically, buildings are named after their principal donors. If Donald Trump donated $20 million to CMU for a CS building, then they would name it after him.
Actually, this is all a moot point. Any truly sensitive information is stored in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). A SCIF is protected such that no radio signals can enter or leave the facility. You are searched both when you enter and leave the facility and if you were wearing a camera watch or carrying a camera cell phone, they would be taken and stored until you left. If you walked out of a SCIF and they found one of these devices that they missed on the way in, it would be taken from you and inspected and you would be investigated for bringing it inside in the first place.
That said, the Coke can poses no threat to sensitive information, even if it could transmit sound, which it can't.
The daughter freaked out because the police were tackling her father to the ground. She was arrested for 'resisting arrest'. When the judge asked the prosecutor what she was being arrested for that she had to resist, he couldn't come up with an adequate answer, and the charge against the girl was thrown out. Furthermore, the police never tried to resolve the question of whether a crime has been commited. They immediately asked him what his name was. They never asked the daughter if their was a problem, they just asked Hiibel what his name was. I agree with the dissenting opinion. Almost any information given to a police officer can be considered incriminating these days.
This was another 5-4 decision with far reaching effects.
I see it as just another step down the slippery slope to a totalitarian police state.
Perhaps you should check out this article (Journaled filesystems on Xeon) from Open, an e-zine covering open source and Linux. It takes a more scientific approach to benchmarking filesystems.
I absolutely understand Mr. Hiibel's behavior. There are many people in this country that are getting sick and tired of the police and their abuses. These days, you avoid interaction with the police for exactly this reason:
You're right, that one was kinda stupid. I don't know the laws in Nevada, but here in PA they would have gotten her on SOMETHING. Perhaps "Assault on a police officer" when she slammed the door into him. THEN you get her for resisting arrest.
This statement implies that the police are making up charges or at least stretching the truth to bring charges. The poor girl is screaming because of the treatment of her father, and you (as a police officer) would "get her" for assault because she opened the door? Very scary if that is what they do in Pennsylvania.
I'm sure people have heard of cases where bystanders report abuse cases to the police and people's lives are ruined when nothing extraordinary was going on. I guess the policy is arrest first and ask questions later.
Benjamin Franklin said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." This case is all about that.
In order to have the perception of safety, we surrender our rights. Pretty soon, we have no rights. If Mr. Hiibel loses in the USSC, it is giving the police carte blanche to violate our rights for pretty much any reason and refusing to give ID is, in fact, one of our (US) Constitutional rights. It's called the Fourth Amendment and I am personally kind of fond of it.
Because drinking for people over the age of 21 (in most US states) is legal, it is drinking and driving that is illegal. Therefore, making people get checked against a database of drunk drivers won't work. Unless you assume that everyone that is arrested for DUI will drink and drive again, and everyone that was convicted of DUI shouldn't be able to drink.
The basis for our (USA) entire legal system is that you have to commit a crime before you are arrested and prosecuted. It's called due process. I am opposed to any law that assumes that just because you have commited a crime in the past, you will commit the same crime in the future and should therefore have your liberties curtailed just in case.
This proposed New Mexico law is ridiculous. We are getting to the point in this country that in order to protect ourselves from perceived dangers (terrorists, drunk drivers, sex offenders) we are willing to surrender our rights.
The only use of ignition interlocks I even remotely support is for convicted repeat drunk drivers. They would have to pay for them and if caught driving (drunk or otherwise) any vehicle not equipped with an ignition interlock, the penalty would be stiff.
We have laws concerning DUI, let's just enforce them.
I object to having my life inconvenienced because other people break the law. Hell, if we're going to do this, why not mandate governors on every car to limit speeds to 65 or 70? Or put speed limit transmitters in every speed limit sign and automatically slow cars down.
You are confusing form of government, with form of economy. You can have a Communist Republic(India?) , you can have a Capitalist Republic (USA), you can have a Communist Dictatorship (pre- 1989 USSR), you can have a Capitalist Dictatorship (Argentina under Peron), but you can't mix the two, i.e. Communist Capitalism. China might be termed a free market Communist state, although these days they are more like a Totalitarian Socialist Republic.
Strangely enough, it was Karl Marx who defined Capitalism in "Das Kapital".
If you want to know how a true Communist state is defined, read this "Communism: Theory of political and economic development proposed by Karl Marx and developed and implemented by V. I. Lenin. In Marxist theory, "communism" denotes the final stage of human historical development in which the people rule both politically (compare: democracy) and economically (contrast: capitalism). Since the government, according to Marxist theory, is essentially an instrument of class oppression, and the society which emerges in this final stage is classless, as this final state is approaches government will gradually wither away (compare: anarchism). See: proletarian, bourgeois."
I still feel my question is valid. I may have made it personal (my job), but the question is no less valid. Why should (other than economics) an Indian programmer get a job held by an American programmer? Do the Indian programmers feel they are better programmers than their American counterparts? Do they feel they work harder? If the answer to those last two questions is yes, then how do they explain the fact that 50% of projects outsourced to India fail?
From an article: "Half of this year's IT outsourcing projects will be tagged as losers by senior decision makers for not delivering on bottom-line promises, Gartner says. Outsourcing is prone to failure because of breakdowns in communications between outsourcing providers and their clients, the research firm adds."
Programming does not come down to simple matters of economics. If they work for 1/4 the cost of an American programmer, but you spend 4 times the amount of time making their code work, how are you better off?
Why not ask the question and see what the answer is instead of censoring the question in the first place?
I must have read 50 comments and not one of them was about RFID tags, which is what the post was about. Moderators should be modding these posts as Off Subject.
My two cents...
I have looked at RFID tag systems and right now they are too expensive for item level tagging. This is what Wal*Mart originally wanted to do. It's alot more efficient than bar code, but way more expensive (right now).
Then they switched to mandating pallet (or box) level tagging which is still helpful, but not very expensive.
I think if more companies use RFID for pallet level tagging the prices will come down and they can then move to item level tagging. I would guess 3-5 years befor item level tagging is affordable.
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The resolution doesn't seem very high, but the integration is very seamless.
You think? I looked up my address and when you zoom to the highest level you can see my freaking parking space!
This is a little bit freaky.
If you think it is the lack of sound in the engine that will be a problem, you obviously don't know bikers. First, the thing can only do 50 mph, which makes it useless on the highway, and second, it only has a range of 100 miles. My bike is a gas guzzler (for a motorcycle) and I can still get 150+ miles on a tank of gas. It seems that work on a fuel cell motorcycle is kind of a waste considering many motorcycles get upwards of 50 mpg already. I think research should be concentrated in automobiles.
I wasn't too impressed with the trailer. Hopefully the movie will be better that the first two, but I wouldn't count on it.
For what its worth, forget Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson is the REAL star of The OC.
I agree that GPA and ability to program don't correlate well, but that was my experience. Perhaps it was other factors that influenced the salary decision, but the GPA was the only big difference. My GPA was on my resume when I first got out of college. Now, with 20 years programming experience, nobody cares what my GPA was back then.
I went to a school that was not known for its CS program and it didn't seem to matter to anyone I interviewed with. What did matter was my grades. With a 3.0 average I was getting offers 30-40% below what the 4.0 students were.
Otherwise it depends on what you plan to do with the degree. If you want to work in the MIT AI Lab, then you better go to a name program and get perfect grades. If you will be happy being a developer somewhere writing financial software, then I don't think it matters.
I also think that showing people the practical things you did while you were in college, not just class work, matters. I wrote a FORTH compiler (while, interpreter, really) from scratch and I think that impressed people that I could apply all the theory I had learned.
Amen. Why do people think that just because THEY don't want to watch the television, NOBODY wants to. I travel alone a lot and I like to watch the airport televisions (which are usually tuned to CNN Headline News) to keep up on what's happening. These TVs aren't everywhere, so if you don't like it, go where there isn't one and let the rest of us watch.
In the US we have millions of crackers. They don't even need training. Wait, you meant the "other" type of cracker.
Never mind.
Unless money, itself, taints the engineering, the chances of SSO crashing have nothing to do with Paul Allen having founded Microsoft.
Yes, I know I am being serious, but Paul Allen is no Bill Gates, so I don't think he should be lumped in with the rest of the MS bashing.
I was going to rag on the guy for his mis-spellings, but your way is much better!
That is true, but taking out communications these days is not such an easy task. We have such a wide spread communications network with so many carriers that you would have to seize too many places to be practical. In the old days you just seized the central telephone exchange, the (most likely) single television station and perhaps the radio stations.
Flash mobs only pose a security risk if you are a fascist. I think with the advent of the cell phone and text messaging, the possibility of a coup d'etat in the developed world is slim to none. Before any would be junta could consolidate power there would be protests in the street, largely due to cell phones and text messaging. I think this a good thing. It safeguards our freedoms and if a few celebrities have to put up with mobs of teenage girls, then so be it.
Sorry for the mistake, but Kildall wrote CP/M, not DR-DOS.
Gary Kildall had the opportunity to license DR-DOS to IBM and he blew it! He didn't sign the non-disclosure and Gates did. He sent IBM to Gates.
I respect Gary because he actually wrote DR-DOS, whereas Bill Gates only licensed DOS from SCC and then sold the rights to IBM. That makes Gary Kildall a technical wiz and Bill Gates a business wiz.
Typically, buildings are named after their principal donors. If Donald Trump donated $20 million to CMU for a CS building, then they would name it after him.
Actually, this is all a moot point. Any truly sensitive information is stored in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). A SCIF is protected such that no radio signals can enter or leave the facility. You are searched both when you enter and leave the facility and if you were wearing a camera watch or carrying a camera cell phone, they would be taken and stored until you left. If you walked out of a SCIF and they found one of these devices that they missed on the way in, it would be taken from you and inspected and you would be investigated for bringing it inside in the first place.
That said, the Coke can poses no threat to sensitive information, even if it could transmit sound, which it can't.
The daughter freaked out because the police were tackling her father to the ground. She was arrested for 'resisting arrest'. When the judge asked the prosecutor what she was being arrested for that she had to resist, he couldn't come up with an adequate answer, and the charge against the girl was thrown out. Furthermore, the police never tried to resolve the question of whether a crime has been commited. They immediately asked him what his name was. They never asked the daughter if their was a problem, they just asked Hiibel what his name was. I agree with the dissenting opinion. Almost any information given to a police officer can be considered incriminating these days.
This was another 5-4 decision with far reaching effects.
I see it as just another step down the slippery slope to a totalitarian police state.
Perhaps you should check out this article (Journaled filesystems on Xeon) from Open, an e-zine covering open source and Linux. It takes a more scientific approach to benchmarking filesystems.
That $13.86 settlement check is bigger than my George Bush sponsored tax cut!
I absolutely understand Mr. Hiibel's behavior. There are many people in this country that are getting sick and tired of the police and their abuses. These days, you avoid interaction with the police for exactly this reason:
You're right, that one was kinda stupid. I don't know the laws in Nevada, but here in PA they would have gotten her on SOMETHING. Perhaps "Assault on a police officer" when she slammed the door into him. THEN you get her for resisting arrest.
This statement implies that the police are making up charges or at least stretching the truth to bring charges. The poor girl is screaming because of the treatment of her father, and you (as a police officer) would "get her" for assault because she opened the door? Very scary if that is what they do in Pennsylvania.
I'm sure people have heard of cases where bystanders report abuse cases to the police and people's lives are ruined when nothing extraordinary was going on. I guess the policy is arrest first and ask questions later.
Benjamin Franklin said "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." This case is all about that.
In order to have the perception of safety, we surrender our rights. Pretty soon, we have no rights. If Mr. Hiibel loses in the USSC, it is giving the police carte blanche to violate our rights for pretty much any reason and refusing to give ID is, in fact, one of our (US) Constitutional rights. It's called the Fourth Amendment and I am personally kind of fond of it.
Because drinking for people over the age of 21 (in most US states) is legal, it is drinking and driving that is illegal. Therefore, making people get checked against a database of drunk drivers won't work. Unless you assume that everyone that is arrested for DUI will drink and drive again, and everyone that was convicted of DUI shouldn't be able to drink.
The basis for our (USA) entire legal system is that you have to commit a crime before you are arrested and prosecuted. It's called due process. I am opposed to any law that assumes that just because you have commited a crime in the past, you will commit the same crime in the future and should therefore have your liberties curtailed just in case.
This proposed New Mexico law is ridiculous. We are getting to the point in this country that in order to protect ourselves from perceived dangers (terrorists, drunk drivers, sex offenders) we are willing to surrender our rights.
The only use of ignition interlocks I even remotely support is for convicted repeat drunk drivers. They would have to pay for them and if caught driving (drunk or otherwise) any vehicle not equipped with an ignition interlock, the penalty would be stiff.
We have laws concerning DUI, let's just enforce them.
I object to having my life inconvenienced because other people break the law. Hell, if we're going to do this, why not mandate governors on every car to limit speeds to 65 or 70? Or put speed limit transmitters in every speed limit sign and automatically slow cars down.
This is just plain stupid.
You are confusing form of government, with form of economy. You can have a Communist Republic(India?) , you can have a Capitalist Republic (USA), you can have a Communist Dictatorship (pre- 1989 USSR), you can have a Capitalist Dictatorship (Argentina under Peron), but you can't mix the two, i.e. Communist Capitalism. China might be termed a free market Communist state, although these days they are more like a Totalitarian Socialist Republic.
Strangely enough, it was Karl Marx who defined Capitalism in "Das Kapital".
If you want to know how a true Communist state is defined, read this "Communism: Theory of political and economic development proposed by Karl Marx and developed and implemented by V. I. Lenin. In Marxist theory, "communism" denotes the final stage of human historical development in which the people rule both politically (compare: democracy) and economically (contrast: capitalism). Since the government, according to Marxist theory, is essentially an instrument of class oppression, and the society which emerges in this final stage is classless, as this final state is approaches government will gradually wither away (compare: anarchism). See: proletarian, bourgeois."
I still feel my question is valid. I may have made it personal (my job), but the question is no less valid. Why should (other than economics) an Indian programmer get a job held by an American programmer? Do the Indian programmers feel they are better programmers than their American counterparts? Do they feel they work harder? If the answer to those last two questions is yes, then how do they explain the fact that 50% of projects outsourced to India fail?
From an article:
"Half of this year's IT outsourcing projects will be tagged as losers by senior decision makers for not delivering on bottom-line promises, Gartner says. Outsourcing is prone to failure because of breakdowns in communications between outsourcing providers and their clients, the research firm adds."
Programming does not come down to simple matters of economics. If they work for 1/4 the cost of an American programmer, but you spend 4 times the amount of time making their code work, how are you better off?
Why not ask the question and see what the answer is instead of censoring the question in the first place?
Other than the fact that you are willing to work for less than our minimum wage (USD), why do you think you should get my job?
I must have read 50 comments and not one of them was about RFID tags, which is what the post was about. Moderators should be modding these posts as Off Subject.
My two cents...
I have looked at RFID tag systems and right now they are too expensive for item level tagging. This is what Wal*Mart originally wanted to do. It's alot more efficient than bar code, but way more expensive (right now).
Then they switched to mandating pallet (or box) level tagging which is still helpful, but not very expensive.
I think if more companies use RFID for pallet level tagging the prices will come down and they can then move to item level tagging. I would guess 3-5 years befor item level tagging is affordable.
Maybe it was blasted into space by an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
I would really love to see Marvin Martian in one of the Spirit pictures!
Take a look at this article and this one. They cover perfromance of Intel's C compiler and gcc.