Spend $20 on a cheap whiteboard and some markers. Have a column for each class on your whiteboard. Update it daily with assignments and due dates. If you want, have another column for things that must be done by tomorrow/end of day. I discovered this process as a senior (in CS engineering) and it was more effective than a planner/iPaq/notebook. You also have the satisfaction of crossing/erasing things. It's also very easy to maintain and can be color coded.
Some analysts were more positive about HP's plan, describing it as an evolutionary step in the development of utility-based computing.
It seems like it's a direct copy of the IBM's On-Demand initiative with a new word to distinguish it. However, if consumers associate it with HP and not IBM, then I guess it doesn't matter who came up with it first because HP won.
"We will eventually get to a point where [IT vendors] charge for usage in real time," said Thornton May, a futurist in Biddeford, Maine, and a Computerworld columnist. "If you want electricity on a hot day, you pay more. If you want bandwidth on a busy pipe-traffic day, you pay more."
How does this relate to wanting more cycles on any given day? They either are or aren't available. I suppose if you're sharing cycles with someone else then you could try and outbid them for the limited cycles that are there, but I think that's a dumb idea. Currently IBM gives you a server that can handle up to Z work but only charges you for X, where X is the amount you actually use and Z is large enough that you can handle significant spikes.
>I mean, this just got posted, no replies to it yet, and the damn thing's already slashdotted.
Wow, you mean people are actually reading the article before posting replies? Dang, that's amazing.
While the coaster does seem pretty amazing, I would love to read about the technical hurdles that had to be overcome in creating it. How do you achieve that kind of acceleration? What are the safety measures (I'm sure there are a ton)? How many computers control it? Etc, etc, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't say anything about Linux being better than Windows or AIX being better than Windows or ______ being better than Windows.
I've worked for large companies that did their development on Solaris, Irix, Linux, and Windows. And I'm currently using Windows because I want to, I could use Linux if I so chose.
My point was simply that the sample wasn't unbiased.
They're Microsoft's customers, of course they've seen more innovation from Microsoft. That's because they haven't tried something else. Anytime something starts with "our customers" what follows is not a valid comparison. You need a better sample.
$.99 is reasonable for all those who own Macs. However, for those of us who don't, the price goes up. Let's assume that I decide that the combination of the 12" Powerbook + the music service is a worthwhile investment. As a result I go out and drop $2000 for a powerbook that will be cool for the next 6 months (with probably 2 years before it's obsolete). Being JoeAverage MusicLover I download about a song a day, say 350 a year. That comes to 700 songs over the next two years, for which I pay a grand total of $693.
Music + Powerbook ~= 2700
Which means that I paid about 3.86 for the song. Of course, the price goes down if I buy an IBook or IMac, and the above equation doesn't consider any value that the hardware has other than playing music/burning CDs (or trauma caused by having a bright neon colored ugly box hiding in my closet). However, I still don't think I can rationalize it.
Can you give some reference on other systems you've maintained and what their battery life was like? Sure, hundred of Thinkpads may have lousy battery life, but suppose that those hundreds of Thinkpads are just like thousands of laptops the world over? Then what's the big deal? Batteries, in general, don't last forever. And just because you don't like the battery doesn't mean the laptop is awful. Corporations buy Thinkpads because they're some of the best laptops made and they're willing to pay for it (Thinkpads aren't cheap). I have a T21 and have been very pleased with it. It's compact, fairly lightweight, and has never given my any problems.
01: boolean a, b; 02: a = true; 03: b = true; 04: if (a && b) System.out.println("Hello World.");
Now:
01:// The string 02:String strHelloWorld = "Hello World."; 03: 04:// The bools 05:bool a; 06:bool b; 07: 08:// Set the bools 09:a = true; 10:b = true; 11: 12:// Check a 13:if (a) 14:{ 15:// Check b 16: if (b) 17: { 18:// Print the string 19: System.out.println(strHelloWorld); 28: } 29:// Done checking b 30:} 31:// Done checking a
Increased by a factor of ~8 (and I didn't crash!) and that's without extra spaces for readabilities sake. Nevermind that spacing an idea out doesn't always make it easier to understand.
I can attest to benefit of using QT. I worked at a place where we were writing simulation software that had to run on Solaris, NT, SGI, and Linux. We were able to write code that was graphics and math intensive, had a nice graphical interface, and ran on all these platforms.
I agree. I'm a student at U of I and I'm going to end up taking a bunch of hours in CompE to satisfy requirements. The two majors are so closely related here that you're not allowed to double major because it wouldn't take too much extra work.
As far as CS goes, I'd like to claim that it's really a glorified math major in many ways. And please don't tell me that any CompE (or other major) can learn how to program just as well as a CS person without much effort. If you define programming as pretty syntax, then maybe, but good programming involves finding the optimal solutions to problems and to do this you have to know a good deal of theory. It's just as bogus for me to claim that I can build a bridge just as well as any Civil Engineer, as long as I had a little practice.
"a small number"?
Even 0.1% of 4.7 million items is still 4700 items. So getting the price right on 99.9% of the items sounds good but leaves a lot of room for experimentation.
When I interviewed out there the big deal was that supposedly the IS department wanted to migrate from a unix environement to an NT/PC environement. Everybody I talked to used either PC's with NT or some Unix variant. I saw nothing (I also had no clearance at the time) that would indicate that the average NSA joe programmer got to use something that the guys over at MS or Sun or Debian don't.
After parole, is it possible that Kevin Mitnick could leave the country to seek employment in another country? With all his knowledge he might be a valuable asset to some country's Department of Defense. Or maybe even our own.
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Spend $20 on a cheap whiteboard and some markers. Have a column for each class on your whiteboard. Update it daily with assignments and due dates. If you want, have another column for things that must be done by tomorrow/end of day. I discovered this process as a senior (in CS engineering) and it was more effective than a planner/iPaq/notebook. You also have the satisfaction of crossing/erasing things. It's also very easy to maintain and can be color coded.
It seems like it's a direct copy of the IBM's On-Demand initiative with a new word to distinguish it. However, if consumers associate it with HP and not IBM, then I guess it doesn't matter who came up with it first because HP won.
How does this relate to wanting more cycles on any given day? They either are or aren't available. I suppose if you're sharing cycles with someone else then you could try and outbid them for the limited cycles that are there, but I think that's a dumb idea. Currently IBM gives you a server that can handle up to Z work but only charges you for X, where X is the amount you actually use and Z is large enough that you can handle significant spikes.
I'm afraid I'm a bit biased, though.
>I mean, this just got posted, no replies to it yet, and the damn thing's already slashdotted.
Wow, you mean people are actually reading the article before posting replies? Dang, that's amazing.
While the coaster does seem pretty amazing, I would love to read about the technical hurdles that had to be overcome in creating it. How do you achieve that kind of acceleration? What are the safety measures (I'm sure there are a ton)? How many computers control it? Etc, etc, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't say anything about Linux being better than Windows or AIX being better than Windows or ______ being better than Windows.
I've worked for large companies that did their development on Solaris, Irix, Linux, and Windows. And I'm currently using Windows because I want to, I could use Linux if I so chose.
My point was simply that the sample wasn't unbiased.
Those bad guys really need to learn how to use some real encryption. Yeah, that's what happened....
All your SSH... nevermind.
They're Microsoft's customers, of course they've seen more innovation from Microsoft. That's because they haven't tried something else. Anytime something starts with "our customers" what follows is not a valid comparison. You need a better sample.
$.99 is reasonable for all those who own Macs. However, for those of us who don't, the price goes up. Let's assume that I decide that the combination of the 12" Powerbook + the music service is a worthwhile investment. As a result I go out and drop $2000 for a powerbook that will be cool for the next 6 months (with probably 2 years before it's obsolete). Being JoeAverage MusicLover I download about a song a day, say 350 a year. That comes to 700 songs over the next two years, for which I pay a grand total of $693.
Music + Powerbook ~= 2700
Which means that I paid about 3.86 for the song. Of course, the price goes down if I buy an IBook or IMac, and the above equation doesn't consider any value that the hardware has other than playing music/burning CDs (or trauma caused by having a bright neon colored ugly box hiding in my closet). However, I still don't think I can rationalize it.
Can you give some reference on other systems you've maintained and what their battery life was like? Sure, hundred of Thinkpads may have lousy battery life, but suppose that those hundreds of Thinkpads are just like thousands of laptops the world over? Then what's the big deal? Batteries, in general, don't last forever. And just because you don't like the battery doesn't mean the laptop is awful. Corporations buy Thinkpads because they're some of the best laptops made and they're willing to pay for it (Thinkpads aren't cheap). I have a T21 and have been very pleased with it. It's compact, fairly lightweight, and has never given my any problems.
Formerly:
// Check b // Print the string // Done checking b
01: boolean a, b;
02: a = true;
03: b = true;
04: if (a && b) System.out.println("Hello World.");
Now:
01:// The string
02:String strHelloWorld = "Hello World.";
03:
04:// The bools
05:bool a;
06:bool b;
07:
08:// Set the bools
09:a = true;
10:b = true;
11:
12:// Check a
13:if (a)
14:{
15:
16: if (b)
17: {
18:
19: System.out.println(strHelloWorld);
28: }
29:
30:}
31:// Done checking a
Increased by a factor of ~8 (and I didn't crash!) and that's without extra spaces for readabilities sake. Nevermind that spacing an idea out doesn't always make it easier to understand.
I can attest to benefit of using QT. I worked at a place where we were writing simulation software that had to run on Solaris, NT, SGI, and Linux. We were able to write code that was graphics and math intensive, had a nice graphical interface, and ran on all these platforms.
Ha! This is precisely why I never install anti-virus software....
I'm so clever.
This seems to indicate to me that I have two options (considering decaffeinated coffee isn't an option):
1) Don't stop drinking coffee, thereby eliminating the 'first cup'.
2) Chase the first cup of coffee with a beer to counter the hardening of my arteries and increased blood pressure.
I agree. I'm a student at U of I and I'm going to end up taking a bunch of hours in CompE to satisfy requirements. The two majors are so closely related here that you're not allowed to double major because it wouldn't take too much extra work. As far as CS goes, I'd like to claim that it's really a glorified math major in many ways. And please don't tell me that any CompE (or other major) can learn how to program just as well as a CS person without much effort. If you define programming as pretty syntax, then maybe, but good programming involves finding the optimal solutions to problems and to do this you have to know a good deal of theory. It's just as bogus for me to claim that I can build a bridge just as well as any Civil Engineer, as long as I had a little practice.
"a small number"? Even 0.1% of 4.7 million items is still 4700 items. So getting the price right on 99.9% of the items sounds good but leaves a lot of room for experimentation.
When I interviewed out there the big deal was that supposedly the IS department wanted to migrate from a unix environement to an NT/PC environement. Everybody I talked to used either PC's with NT or some Unix variant. I saw nothing (I also had no clearance at the time) that would indicate that the average NSA joe programmer got to use something that the guys over at MS or Sun or Debian don't.
After parole, is it possible that Kevin Mitnick could leave the country to seek employment in another country? With all his knowledge he might be a valuable asset to some country's Department of Defense. Or maybe even our own.