Q: "Why doesn't Intel dedicate engineers to optimizing gcc's code generation for ia32 and ia64?"
A: Intel is not a charity. Software Engineers do not optimize compilers for free. Giving away the work of well-paid engineers is not a very intelligent business decision.
The shielding is a conductor, and requires a ground.
Shielding could be required for many reasons, depending on the layout of the ship and how the cables are run. Things like flourescent lighting, electric motors, pumps and generators are more than capable of producing enough interference to disrupt the signal.
You probaly don't live on a big metal ship either.
On an ocean going ship, shielded cable & grounding is a must. Static discharge from bulkheads is more than capable of corrupting data or even zapping a NIC. Other sources of interference include active radars or even shortwave transmitters in certain circumstances.
Depending on the type of vessel, there may be other things going on to interfere with things. Fishing vessels has powerful motors and machinery. Naval vessels have fire control radar and ECM. Cruise liners have everything from big speakers in the disco to large electric ovens and water heaters.
I recentely setup Direcway (the DirectTV service) for my parents and was very impressed.
You get one dish with a transmit and receive line feeding into do decoders in the house. DirectTV only supports Windows and MS Internet Connection Sharing.
The download speeds are very high (as high as 2MB/s) but are capped. When your bandwidth usage exceeds the cap, they start capping your transfer rates and eventually turn off access for a couple of hours.
I had success setting up a proxy server, which works effectively up to about 5 users, at which point the slow upload speeds make usage difficult.
There is a big difference between my grandparents and H1B visa holders.
H1B's are temporary imported labor brought in to address a "labor shortage". They are usually not eligible to become permament residents, and have their visas revoked 30 days after separating from employment.
My grandparents entered this country on a long-term visa and eventually became naturalized citizens of the US.
I'm all for immigration -- I say that we should allow lots of Mexicans and Asians in -- as permament immigrants. Imported temporary labor contributes little to our society, besides providing cheap, abusable labor to companies.
My point about the dogs is that we don't cross-breed pigs with chickens. Cross-breeding brings out certain traits in a species. Genetic engineering takes insect-repelling traits from a tomato and transfers them to corn or rice.
Your point regarding the nuclear issue is very naive. Your assumption that all the lies and distortions of the past do not continue today is a joke.
I strongly support nuclear power -- and my statement had nothing to do with nuclear energy.
There are practical consequences to bioengineered products beyond the frankenstein-like panic articles like this one. What is going to happen when all of our crops are patented products of agribusiness?
When was the last time a farmer cross-pollinated a tomato with corn to stop insects?
Or when did cross-breeding allow corn to produce human proteins and drugs?
Their do NOT completely understand the consequences of their actions. Taking genetic sequences from a horse and inserting it into a dog is not analogus to cross-breeding a german shepard with a cocker spaniel.
The adverse reaction to genetically altered foods comes from a populace that has been repeatedly lied to by government and industry. "Harmless" nuclear tests in the Nevada desert are now estimated to have caused 70,000 cancer deaths. The use of "Harmless" PCB-contaminated waste oil donated by GE to tar roads in the Northeast has resulted in cancer rates 250% higher in towns that accepted it over the last 30 years. Cost cutting and consolidation in the meatpacking industry has resulted in hundreds of people being sickened or killed by contaminated meat.
Maybe bioengineered products should get a good, hard look in open tests before being let loose on the world.
I disagree. If this scheme would work, someone would have implemented it already.
The problem with micropayments is the "micro" part.
If information is available for $0.05, the chance are that it isn't very important or valuable. Nobody wants to deal with the hassles of paying for content on a piece by piece basis.
You can sell valuable information. Many people pay $30/month to read the Wall Street Journal online. Others pay $5,000 a year to IBM to get support information for software or hardware.
$0.05 donations are even more ludicrous. Who is going to go through the hassle of setting up an account to voluntarily give some random person $0.05? Answer: Not enough to make it worthwhile.
Things like the Kuro5hin or Public Radio pledge campaign do work. The person in the next cubicle at work gave them $50 because they simply love the discussion there.
If a web publisher doesn't have a big enough community to support a pledge drive, then he either needs to swallow the costs, merge with someone or cease to exist.
Ever since the printing press came on the scene, small publishers have had it tough. The internet is certainly makes it cheaper to reach an audience and publish content, it doesn't eliminate costs. So small publishers will continue to fold when they cannot accept additional publishing costs.
I have paper cash in my wallet. It is lightweight, accepted everywhere and there are no fees or auditing associated with it.
Online commerce isn't a new thing... for many years people have been transacting business from afar. The transmission protocol was called postal mail and the payment method was a draft or money order.
Online commerce only differs in it's speed.
You don't pay fees for regular cash because the government runs it- you pay taxes in order to use regular cash
Money isn't run by the government. The Federal Reserve System, a consortium of banks, is the issuer of the US dollar. The dollar is in turn backed by the faith and credit of the United States government. (Most nations have a similar scheme, or base their currency on the value of the US dollar)
You can use private currency, but nobody is obligated to accept this as payment. This is why Nordstrom will not accept a Macy's gift certificate. On the US dollar, you'll see the words "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". If someone refuses to accept US currency to settle a debt in the US, the courts would discharge the debt.
Anonymous digital cash involves complex schemes of purchasing gold or some other commodity and then getting other people to use the private currency. The problem with anonymous eCash is the extremely high transaction costs (you basically pay $1.00 for $0.80). You money is also subject to rapid shifts in value as commodity prices change. Also, no eCash scheme is safe from a court subpeona.
I have paper cash in my wallet. It is lightweight, accepted everywhere and there are no fees or auditing associated with it.
With eCash, I'll invariably be paying fees for using my money and whomever is running the system & the government will be able to track or audit my activity.
If you don't want to carry cash, call American Express and get a credit or charge card.
I am not the original poster, but I'd like to respond to your rant.
At one time I worked as a DBA at a small company where I also got to administer the email system. (Don't ask.)
Our customer service addresses would be bombarded with nearly 5,000 spams a day from various sources. In general, US, European, and Australian ISPs did an excellent job in shutting down spam sites. This stemmed the flow to about 2,500 spams per day.
Of these roughly 2/3 orginated from Korean, Chinese or Romanian servers, whose admins never on any occasion took any action against the spammers.
So I spoke to the network people and computer systems director and decided to filter most of the subnets where the spam originated from (probaly about 7,000 address ranges).
It was a decision I was relectant to make, but it needed to be done. Our company provided services to customers in the US, Canada, Mexico and Chile. We weren't going to lose any asian business.
Until the ISPs in these nations decide to be good net citizens, the rest of the internet community should blacklist them.
The beauty of "IT" is that it isn't a static thing. If you like coding, there are a nearly unlimited number of things going on in different environments, languages, and projects. If you hate writing webpages in PHP or Perl, you can pretty easily transfer those skills into writing GUI applications in Swing.
Administration is the same way, you have networking, unix flavors, windows, databases, etc...
Of course finding a gig can be difficult, but jobs are out there.
You sound you have plenty of experience under your belt and a good understanding of things.
I've seen people make a living off of just about any computer specialty out there, good economy or bad. Find something that can get you some clients and do what you love.
Just stay involved in the community around a product or technology, and you'll have no problems. I've found that posting intelligently to a newsgroup or mailing list leads to job offers when you are not even looking for work.
We may need new C library implementations, especially if the GNU lunatics ever decide to change future versions of glibc to GPL licensing rather than LGPL.
You may laugh at this as a crazy notion, or even a troll. But looking at the near-hysterical rants from the head of the GNU project regarding the whole "GNU/Linux" issue, I'd say that it is a definate possibility.
Realistically, you are not going to see any increased security risk with a keyless entry system.
There are probaly a couple of hundred different codes transmitted over frequencies that will vary from car to car. I used to drive a very common car (a Ford Explorer) and never ran into a situation where my keyless remote opened up doors on another car.
Contrast this to keys. There are usually only about 15 different key combinations per model for many cars. To combat the problem of theives getting their hands on the keys to steal the car, most manufacturers have added an RFID token to car keys. If you start to open a door with a copied key, the ignition is disabled.
I suppose if you knew all the different frequencies used by the keyless transmitters, you could sit in busy parking lots and gather the lock and unlock codes. You still would not have the ignition key or the RFID of the igniton key.
But you would need to have alot of money to build the equipment, a good background in electronics, and a smart brain in your head. (Traits generally not carried by car theives) Who would go to all of this trouble to steal a stereo?? Especially when you can gain phyiscal access to the car in less than 45 seconds w/o any technical stuff!
Also, as a side note, large apartment complexes are wonderlands for thieves of all sorts. A transient population with relatively high income equals alot of unreported petty crime. Those cheap sliding glass doors make entry into the house trivial.
Utter bullshit. OSS support for lots of commercial software doesn't exist. (And reading and patching source code doesn't count)
Ask RedHat about updating Redhat 4.2. Get the X-Windows developers to provide drivers for more than 3 video cards in the version of X that shipped with Yggdrasil.
Try applying the lastest security and fix patches in one fell swoop like you can with Windows Update for free. Oh wait, the RedHat network is non-free.
LCD's aren't enough. If you want a real 3733t NOC, rename it a "Command Center" and get bigger gas-plasma displays.
Give the people working there military sounding titles for wargames. For example, the guy who watches the WAN is the "Night Distributed Network Watch Commander". The guy who watches the mainframe consoles is the "Enterprise Systems Surveillance Officer". The manager on duty is the "Command Post Commander in Chief".
You also need a electronic map of the world, even if your company only operates in one city.
Richard Stallman has repeatedly stated that he finds our concept of intellectual property repugnant and that he seeks to defeat the defeat of the IP/copyright system. One weapon to accomplish this is the GPL.
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Q: "Why doesn't Intel dedicate engineers to optimizing gcc's code generation for ia32 and ia64?"
A: Intel is not a charity. Software Engineers do not optimize compilers for free. Giving away the work of well-paid engineers is not a very intelligent business decision.
The shielding is a conductor, and requires a ground.
Shielding could be required for many reasons, depending on the layout of the ship and how the cables are run. Things like flourescent lighting, electric motors, pumps and generators are more than capable of producing enough interference to disrupt the signal.
You probaly don't live on a big metal ship either.
On an ocean going ship, shielded cable & grounding is a must. Static discharge from bulkheads is more than capable of corrupting data or even zapping a NIC. Other sources of interference include active radars or even shortwave transmitters in certain circumstances.
Depending on the type of vessel, there may be other things going on to interfere with things. Fishing vessels has powerful motors and machinery. Naval vessels have fire control radar and ECM. Cruise liners have everything from big speakers in the disco to large electric ovens and water heaters.
And buy off some local zoning boards and officials. Also prepare to pay property tax on your wires.
Cable companies get local monopolies because towns grant them, you'll need to grease some wheels to do the same.
Just use any proxy server rather than ICS.
The only really obnoxious thing is the bandwidth caps.
If you are dropping that many packets in NT, you have an admin problem, not an OS problem.
I recentely setup Direcway (the DirectTV service) for my parents and was very impressed.
You get one dish with a transmit and receive line feeding into do decoders in the house. DirectTV only supports Windows and MS Internet Connection Sharing.
The download speeds are very high (as high as 2MB/s) but are capped. When your bandwidth usage exceeds the cap, they start capping your transfer rates and eventually turn off access for a couple of hours.
I had success setting up a proxy server, which works effectively up to about 5 users, at which point the slow upload speeds make usage difficult.
There is a big difference between my grandparents and H1B visa holders.
H1B's are temporary imported labor brought in to address a "labor shortage". They are usually not eligible to become permament residents, and have their visas revoked 30 days after separating from employment.
My grandparents entered this country on a long-term visa and eventually became naturalized citizens of the US.
I'm all for immigration -- I say that we should allow lots of Mexicans and Asians in -- as permament immigrants. Imported temporary labor contributes little to our society, besides providing cheap, abusable labor to companies.
Not at all dude.
My point about the dogs is that we don't cross-breed pigs with chickens. Cross-breeding brings out certain traits in a species. Genetic engineering takes insect-repelling traits from a tomato and transfers them to corn or rice.
Your point regarding the nuclear issue is very naive. Your assumption that all the lies and distortions of the past do not continue today is a joke.
I strongly support nuclear power -- and my statement had nothing to do with nuclear energy.
There are practical consequences to bioengineered products beyond the frankenstein-like panic articles like this one. What is going to happen when all of our crops are patented products of agribusiness?
Don't count on it.
The chances of getting any progressive laws for technology issues is nil.
Lie.
.NET and 50 years of Java.
When you submit a resume to HR, talk about your 25 years of experience with
Just remember to bring a real resume to the interview.
Please stop the FUD man.
When was the last time a farmer cross-pollinated a tomato with corn to stop insects?
Or when did cross-breeding allow corn to produce human proteins and drugs?
Their do NOT completely understand the consequences of their actions. Taking genetic sequences from a horse and inserting it into a dog is not analogus to cross-breeding a german shepard with a cocker spaniel.
The adverse reaction to genetically altered foods comes from a populace that has been repeatedly lied to by government and industry. "Harmless" nuclear tests in the Nevada desert are now estimated to have caused 70,000 cancer deaths. The use of "Harmless" PCB-contaminated waste oil donated by GE to tar roads in the Northeast has resulted in cancer rates 250% higher in towns that accepted it over the last 30 years. Cost cutting and consolidation in the meatpacking industry has resulted in hundreds of people being sickened or killed by contaminated meat.
Maybe bioengineered products should get a good, hard look in open tests before being let loose on the world.
I disagree. If this scheme would work, someone would have implemented it already.
The problem with micropayments is the "micro" part.
If information is available for $0.05, the chance are that it isn't very important or valuable. Nobody wants to deal with the hassles of paying for content on a piece by piece basis.
You can sell valuable information. Many people pay $30/month to read the Wall Street Journal online. Others pay $5,000 a year to IBM to get support information for software or hardware.
$0.05 donations are even more ludicrous. Who is going to go through the hassle of setting up an account to voluntarily give some random person $0.05? Answer: Not enough to make it worthwhile.
Things like the Kuro5hin or Public Radio pledge campaign do work. The person in the next cubicle at work gave them $50 because they simply love the discussion there.
If a web publisher doesn't have a big enough community to support a pledge drive, then he either needs to swallow the costs, merge with someone or cease to exist.
Ever since the printing press came on the scene, small publishers have had it tough. The internet is certainly makes it cheaper to reach an audience and publish content, it doesn't eliminate costs. So small publishers will continue to fold when they cannot accept additional publishing costs.
I have paper cash in my wallet. It is lightweight, accepted everywhere and there are no fees or auditing associated with it.
Online commerce isn't a new thing... for many years people have been transacting business from afar. The transmission protocol was called postal mail and the payment method was a draft or money order.
Online commerce only differs in it's speed.
You don't pay fees for regular cash because the government runs it- you pay taxes in order to use regular cash
Money isn't run by the government. The Federal Reserve System, a consortium of banks, is the issuer of the US dollar. The dollar is in turn backed by the faith and credit of the United States government. (Most nations have a similar scheme, or base their currency on the value of the US dollar)
You can use private currency, but nobody is obligated to accept this as payment. This is why Nordstrom will not accept a Macy's gift certificate. On the US dollar, you'll see the words "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". If someone refuses to accept US currency to settle a debt in the US, the courts would discharge the debt.
Anonymous digital cash involves complex schemes of purchasing gold or some other commodity and then getting other people to use the private currency. The problem with anonymous eCash is the extremely high transaction costs (you basically pay $1.00 for $0.80). You money is also subject to rapid shifts in value as commodity prices change. Also, no eCash scheme is safe from a court subpeona.
I have paper cash in my wallet. It is lightweight, accepted everywhere and there are no fees or auditing associated with it.
With eCash, I'll invariably be paying fees for using my money and whomever is running the system & the government will be able to track or audit my activity.
If you don't want to carry cash, call American Express and get a credit or charge card.
I am not the original poster, but I'd like to respond to your rant.
At one time I worked as a DBA at a small company where I also got to administer the email system. (Don't ask.)
Our customer service addresses would be bombarded with nearly 5,000 spams a day from various sources. In general, US, European, and Australian ISPs did an excellent job in shutting down spam sites. This stemmed the flow to about 2,500 spams per day.
Of these roughly 2/3 orginated from Korean, Chinese or Romanian servers, whose admins never on any occasion took any action against the spammers.
So I spoke to the network people and computer systems director and decided to filter most of the subnets where the spam originated from (probaly about 7,000 address ranges).
It was a decision I was relectant to make, but it needed to be done. Our company provided services to customers in the US, Canada, Mexico and Chile. We weren't going to lose any asian business.
Until the ISPs in these nations decide to be good net citizens, the rest of the internet community should blacklist them.
That is absolutely correct.
The beauty of "IT" is that it isn't a static thing. If you like coding, there are a nearly unlimited number of things going on in different environments, languages, and projects. If you hate writing webpages in PHP or Perl, you can pretty easily transfer those skills into writing GUI applications in Swing.
Administration is the same way, you have networking, unix flavors, windows, databases, etc...
Of course finding a gig can be difficult, but jobs are out there.
Do whatever interests you.
You sound you have plenty of experience under your belt and a good understanding of things.
I've seen people make a living off of just about any computer specialty out there, good economy or bad. Find something that can get you some clients and do what you love.
Just stay involved in the community around a product or technology, and you'll have no problems. I've found that posting intelligently to a newsgroup or mailing list leads to job offers when you are not even looking for work.
If there is a compelling reason to do so. Lots of people have bought programs like Oracle or VMWare for Linux.
Expecting to sell an instant messenger to anyone is a different story. You have low-to-no cost competition from Lotus, Microsoft Exchange and Jabber.
Instant messenging is a mature product that has already begun to consolidate into a few big players.
We may need new C library implementations, especially if the GNU lunatics ever decide to change future versions of glibc to GPL licensing rather than LGPL.
You may laugh at this as a crazy notion, or even a troll. But looking at the near-hysterical rants from the head of the GNU project regarding the whole "GNU/Linux" issue, I'd say that it is a definate possibility.
The three Nvidia developers who developed these drivers increased the size of the FreeBSD community by 300%!
Realistically, you are not going to see any increased security risk with a keyless entry system.
There are probaly a couple of hundred different codes transmitted over frequencies that will vary from car to car. I used to drive a very common car (a Ford Explorer) and never ran into a situation where my keyless remote opened up doors on another car.
Contrast this to keys. There are usually only about 15 different key combinations per model for many cars. To combat the problem of theives getting their hands on the keys to steal the car, most manufacturers have added an RFID token to car keys. If you start to open a door with a copied key, the ignition is disabled.
I suppose if you knew all the different frequencies used by the keyless transmitters, you could sit in busy parking lots and gather the lock and unlock codes. You still would not have the ignition key or the RFID of the igniton key.
But you would need to have alot of money to build the equipment, a good background in electronics, and a smart brain in your head. (Traits generally not carried by car theives) Who would go to all of this trouble to steal a stereo?? Especially when you can gain phyiscal access to the car in less than 45 seconds w/o any technical stuff!
Also, as a side note, large apartment complexes are wonderlands for thieves of all sorts. A transient population with relatively high income equals alot of unreported petty crime. Those cheap sliding glass doors make entry into the house trivial.
Utter bullshit. OSS support for lots of commercial software doesn't exist. (And reading and patching source code doesn't count)
Ask RedHat about updating Redhat 4.2. Get the X-Windows developers to provide drivers for more than 3 video cards in the version of X that shipped with Yggdrasil.
Try applying the lastest security and fix patches in one fell swoop like you can with Windows Update for free. Oh wait, the RedHat network is non-free.
Perl is great until you try to upgrade a perl app running on 50 servers on different platforms with a variety of old and buggy CPAN modules.
It's a great language for some things, and the "there's more than one way to do it" philosophy is nice for quick projects.
You'll love perl until you have to spend $3k on an IBM compiler to just compiled modules on AIX, which don't compile without alot of prodding.
LCD's aren't enough. If you want a real 3733t NOC, rename it a "Command Center" and get bigger gas-plasma displays.
Give the people working there military sounding titles for wargames. For example, the guy who watches the WAN is the "Night Distributed Network Watch Commander". The guy who watches the mainframe consoles is the "Enterprise Systems Surveillance Officer". The manager on duty is the "Command Post Commander in Chief".
You also need a electronic map of the world, even if your company only operates in one city.
Richard Stallman has repeatedly stated that he finds our concept of intellectual property repugnant and that he seeks to defeat the defeat of the IP/copyright system. One weapon to accomplish this is the GPL.
Read some of the rants published by the FSF.