Somebody sure is watching and tracking individual students, but they're definitely not interested in the student's success -- collecting all this data together and using it to generate mass "trends" will likely end up in having various kids who are doing well being sat down and had a talking-to by the school's guidance counsellors about not dropping out, merely because they don't fit the trend.
Back in my senior year of high school, we had some sort of tracking system that was based primarily on attendance. It flagged me as a student that was going to fail out, never mind my 3.9 GPA and my acceptance to Stanford based upon the entrance exams (untimately did not go to Stanford because I could not afford the $25k/year). I had a meeting with our vice principal telling me I was in serious trouble with my attendance. What a joke.
I may not have a Doctorate with a thesis written on pattern recognitions, but even I can figure this one out...
Actually I do have a Doctorate with a thesis involving pattern recognition and I have not for the life of me been able to figure out how people can be happy with the products that have been copied so badly from Apple. I guess they consider them "good enough" and have no idea how good life can be with the genuine article.
I've tried to use the BuyMusic.com site, and I have come to the conclusion that iTMS has it all over them. When iTMS for Windows is live, these guys are toast.
iTunes Music Store: Emphasis on ease of use, customer experience, technical quality. Focal issue: adding value to Mac systems to attract switchers and sell iPods. Result: Pretty decent music service, all things considered.
I can't believe how easy iTMS is to access and set up, and allowing you to actually own the music you purchase is the selling point. I can play it on three computers including my workstation at the lab, my home workstation and the iTunes music server we have set up at the house. Apple has made a number of purchases of iPods and Macs simply from people coming over to parties at our house and seeing how cool the iTunes music server is. We have our entire music collection on that thing in a searchable, organizable database, and I never have to mess with another jewelcase again. The iTMS has made it possible for me never to have to drive down to the hateful mall music store again.
BuyMusic.com: Emphasis on Being Cheaper than iTMS, locking out non-approved systems, Looking an awful lot like iTMS.
It looks like iTMS even down to the commercials, but like most things in the computer industry that copy Apple, they copy Apple badly. Also, look at the wording of the sales bit. Songs from.79 cents. I have priced a number of albums, and if they are available, which often times they are not despite being listed, the albums end up being more expensive than iTMS. Also, as mentioned in the linked blog, DRM is a total pain in the ass with BuyMusics version.
Focal issue: Establish self as competition for iTMS before Apple gets the Windows version out.
I tried using BuyMusic.com on a Windows system here and it is a total farce. Songs listed are not actually available, things are expensive, I cannot figure out how to deauthorize the computer I used to attempt to purchase songs, etc...etc...etc... Apple is gonna waste these jokers if they can get iTMS available for Windows in a timely manner.
Result: left as an exercise for the reader.
I know what my experience has been, and I will be happily using iTMS on OS X, thankyou.
What we need are some politicians who are knowledgeable about tech issues. Some like Howard Dean are a step in the right direction, and it will have to come down from the top as there are too many folks in congress that have no real impetus to get involved with on-line voting. Shoot even with recent administrations, personal computers were almost nowhere to be seen in the first Bush administration. All I saw there were the Sun workstations used by the military and other departments. A Windows or Macintosh computer was nowhere to be seen. The Clinton administration was considerably more computer literate and I've seen Cheney with a Powerbook when he is in Jackson, but for the most part these guys are not up with the tech times.
I have been using the iGo Juice to power my Powerbook and peripherals and find it to be quite the appealing solution including charging handhelds and cell phones when I travel. The iPod gets charged through the Firewire port (awesome idea), so other than that, I'm set. All of these devices appear to use Lithium Ion batteries and have decent performance, (especially the Powerbooks).
So I ask again, where the hell is your money going?
If it's any business of yours, I looked at a potential job offer in the valley a couple of years ago and concluded that if I took the job, I would also take a considerable hit in terms of quality of life even making $200k. Yes, you can get a apartment, but right now I am living in a great house in a rather nice neighborhood close to where I work with wonderful neighbors. Even now, to find an equivalent house in the valley, I would be looking at approximately $1.8 million, which to me is outrageous. I'd have to be making $230k or more just to make the house payments. I don't have car payments on our vehicles and I ride my bike back and forth to work which would be difficult in the valley, and I like to save approx 20% of my paycheck monthly for savings and investment. So, if we wanted to move into an apartment and drive constantly back and forth to our jobs in heavy traffic, yeah we could do it, but that's not living to me. I like being able to afford a house and be able to ride my bike out of my driveway and up into a canyon or to the lab in less than 15 minutes. I like being able to go fly fishing without driving an entire day, I like to go hiking without driving an entire day. All these things, I simply can't do in the valley and certainly not at $100k.
Republicans own the government right now. You'd have to be a damn *idiot* to side with the underdog when you're about to try pushing through a seriously dicey move that could piss off a lot of Americans.
Or you could stand up and fight for what you believe in.
And don't forget that burning coal high in uranium can release into the atmosphere as much radiation every day as was released by the Three Mile Island leak. Just look to the big coal plant in central Utah for an example.
"What will happen when the the oil is gone? What are they going to do? Die, or find something else?" So I would think the same with will happen.
Engineer in promoters for certain compounds that must be present for the organism to live. No sustaining compound....microbes die. This is very common in the lab, and I could imagine other potential applications such as radio frequency induced promoters that would trigger pre-programmed apoptosis pathways to eliminate bacteria when the job is accomplished.
The article is missing the single largest UNIX distribution in terms of licenses shipped, OS X. Of course this begs the argument made on Slashdot before, but given that I run much *nix code on my OS X boxes, many with a simple recompile, it's UNIX to me.
Of course, their fan was a monster, but I imagine that this could be done better with a cooler GPU like ATI's.
Or better case design. Take for example Apple's new G5. Apple made sure that the case has multiple zones with independent temperature controlled fans than can spin at lower RPM's depending upon the heat load. Of course this means you have more fans, but overall the system is much quieter.
Why the hell would you have a GeForceTi in a server?
Because my workstation is my server as well. OS X gives me the possibility of having one workstation run all of my *nix code, along with Photoshop, Office, IDL, Multispec, Safari, Mail, Keynote, etc...etc..etc... at the same time as functioning as a rather competent server all in a plug and play environment with a nice GUI on top.
The other issue we are going to be having is fan reliability. In servers, we can tell if fans go bad through notification. However, when the fan on my GeForceTi gave up the ghost last week, I only knew about it because I was in the case adding a card. With the proliferation of fans in computers, I would like to see either 1) built in software checks to identify fan status, or 2) more efficient passive cooling techniques that don't require fans. Having a truly silent PC on your desk is pretty nice as illustrated by the Apple Cube connected to a flat panel. Totally silent as opposed to my other workstations (Apple included).
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That seems horribly inefficient!
I was under the impression that this had more to do with redundancy of complex data for purposes of security to ensure someone does not spoof data? If the analysis were to proceed by simply taking a derivative of the FFT and using that, the data would concievably be easier to forge? Perhaps this also is one of the reasons that the Seti@home crew is unwilling to make platform specific optimizations?
Perhaps the signal is from an object like a pulsar that is increasing in mass near its center and increasing its rate of spin a'la conservation of angular momentum? After all the first time a pulsar was discovered, it was thought to be "little green men".
I remember seeing one of these advertised in an Estes catalog back in the late seventies and drooling over the idea. Unfortunately, I was just a poor kid with little pocket money for rockets.
Estes had another version with (I think) 110 still camera film. We had a group of about ten of us that all saved up and bought one back then. The pictures were OK...... Sometimes all you got was blue sky, but other times they were pretty good except that you could never get the fins and the base of the rocket out of the picture.
It sounds stupid to say this, but these guys just aren't as good as the seasoned tech people we have in the US. They can't see the big picture
In many cases, they can't see the big picture because they are only given small amounts of code to create or port rather than being given a larger perspective. One simply has to look and the many hundreds of programmers for IE to see this.
They lack the comprehensive technical immersion that we in the US have.
This may be changing faster than you might expect. The Indian government has made tech education a central component of their economic plans and judging from the quality of some of the programmers I've run into here in the US, we should be worried.
Most off-shore engineers were in non-technical jobs before they managed to go to college and learn how to program.
Oh? What is your evidence here? There are a great many folks that are getting targeted education in tech in India and elsewhere that brings them straight into their programming courses.
In 20, 50, 100 years I'm sure this technology gap will fade and perhaps even vanish, but certainly not in the short term.
And don't forget benefits such as healthcare and retirement.
I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work.
Not as cheap as someone oversees. What is considered good money in India wouldn't be a living wage in Silicon Valley, or in most of the United States.
Indeed. Especially considering that even $100k is not really even a living wage in Silicon Valley and that same $100k costs the employer approx $155k including benefits. That same job in many cases can be found in India for $5k or less. The issues to be overcome are language barriers, project management and innovation (or lack thereof with remotely managed projects).
Your point is especially clear when you consider some of the features that have gone into this simulator. Take for instance, the ability to feed out a signal via networking to another computer to render other views.
Unfortunately, his regard for the democratic process seems limited by his own biases.
Dean has apparently turned around on this issue. Physicians by nature historically tend to be fairly conservative with remedies other than those they have been trained with. (as it should be) As a physician, I am sure Dean wrestled with this and some of the other issues associated with its use (legal and otherwise).
The power to prescribe is, after all, the basis for doctors' wealth.
You might be surprised to know how little money many physicians make relative to the number of years of making little to no money and the number of hours they work.
In responding, please do not lecture me on the dire dangers and unproven benefits of pot. None of that is relevant.
The issues here are manifold and any simplistic answer is difficult to resolve and involve the inconsistent composition of marijuana among other items and who gets access to it.
The only relevant question is this: is it right to put sick people in jail in order to prevent them from smoking pot?
No. But that is most certainly not the only relevant question with this issue.
Please forgive me for stating the obvious, but just because you use the internet does not mean you are an expert in its history or technology. I use cars heavily every day, yet I do not consider myself an expert in car mechanics, nor their history, creation, or evolution.
What do you require for expertise? While I did not develop any of the protocols for the creation of the Internet, I do understand some of the theory of data transmission and security, I maintain servers, can configure networking needs both locally and remotely etc...etc...etc... while discussing the history, implementation and application of the Internet.
As for cars, given that one of my jobs through my undergraduate education was a mechanic restoring and maintaining antique and rare automobiles (including old Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, Studebakers, Cord's, etc...etc...) but I do not hold an official certification for being a mechanic, so I understand your point. But I can completely take apart, reassemble and improve an automobile while talking to you endlessly about their history, creation and evolution.:-)
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Somebody sure is watching and tracking individual students, but they're definitely not interested in the student's success -- collecting all this data together and using it to generate mass "trends" will likely end up in having various kids who are doing well being sat down and had a talking-to by the school's guidance counsellors about not dropping out, merely because they don't fit the trend.
Back in my senior year of high school, we had some sort of tracking system that was based primarily on attendance. It flagged me as a student that was going to fail out, never mind my 3.9 GPA and my acceptance to Stanford based upon the entrance exams (untimately did not go to Stanford because I could not afford the $25k/year). I had a meeting with our vice principal telling me I was in serious trouble with my attendance. What a joke.
I may not have a Doctorate with a thesis written on pattern recognitions, but even I can figure this one out...
Actually I do have a Doctorate with a thesis involving pattern recognition and I have not for the life of me been able to figure out how people can be happy with the products that have been copied so badly from Apple. I guess they consider them "good enough" and have no idea how good life can be with the genuine article.
I've tried to use the BuyMusic.com site, and I have come to the conclusion that iTMS has it all over them. When iTMS for Windows is live, these guys are toast.
iTunes Music Store:
Emphasis on ease of use, customer experience, technical quality.
Focal issue: adding value to Mac systems to attract switchers and sell iPods.
Result: Pretty decent music service, all things considered.
I can't believe how easy iTMS is to access and set up, and allowing you to actually own the music you purchase is the selling point. I can play it on three computers including my workstation at the lab, my home workstation and the iTunes music server we have set up at the house. Apple has made a number of purchases of iPods and Macs simply from people coming over to parties at our house and seeing how cool the iTunes music server is. We have our entire music collection on that thing in a searchable, organizable database, and I never have to mess with another jewelcase again. The iTMS has made it possible for me never to have to drive down to the hateful mall music store again.
BuyMusic.com:
Emphasis on Being Cheaper than iTMS, locking out non-approved systems, Looking an awful lot like iTMS.
It looks like iTMS even down to the commercials, but like most things in the computer industry that copy Apple, they copy Apple badly. Also, look at the wording of the sales bit. Songs from.79 cents. I have priced a number of albums, and if they are available, which often times they are not despite being listed, the albums end up being more expensive than iTMS. Also, as mentioned in the linked blog, DRM is a total pain in the ass with BuyMusics version.
Focal issue: Establish self as competition for iTMS before Apple gets the Windows version out.
I tried using BuyMusic.com on a Windows system here and it is a total farce. Songs listed are not actually available, things are expensive, I cannot figure out how to deauthorize the computer I used to attempt to purchase songs, etc...etc...etc... Apple is gonna waste these jokers if they can get iTMS available for Windows in a timely manner.
Result: left as an exercise for the reader.
I know what my experience has been, and I will be happily using iTMS on OS X, thankyou.
What we need are some politicians who are knowledgeable about tech issues. Some like Howard Dean are a step in the right direction, and it will have to come down from the top as there are too many folks in congress that have no real impetus to get involved with on-line voting. Shoot even with recent administrations, personal computers were almost nowhere to be seen in the first Bush administration. All I saw there were the Sun workstations used by the military and other departments. A Windows or Macintosh computer was nowhere to be seen. The Clinton administration was considerably more computer literate and I've seen Cheney with a Powerbook when he is in Jackson, but for the most part these guys are not up with the tech times.
I have been using the iGo Juice to power my Powerbook and peripherals and find it to be quite the appealing solution including charging handhelds and cell phones when I travel. The iPod gets charged through the Firewire port (awesome idea), so other than that, I'm set. All of these devices appear to use Lithium Ion batteries and have decent performance, (especially the Powerbooks).
So I ask again, where the hell is your money going?
If it's any business of yours, I looked at a potential job offer in the valley a couple of years ago and concluded that if I took the job, I would also take a considerable hit in terms of quality of life even making $200k. Yes, you can get a apartment, but right now I am living in a great house in a rather nice neighborhood close to where I work with wonderful neighbors. Even now, to find an equivalent house in the valley, I would be looking at approximately $1.8 million, which to me is outrageous. I'd have to be making $230k or more just to make the house payments. I don't have car payments on our vehicles and I ride my bike back and forth to work which would be difficult in the valley, and I like to save approx 20% of my paycheck monthly for savings and investment. So, if we wanted to move into an apartment and drive constantly back and forth to our jobs in heavy traffic, yeah we could do it, but that's not living to me. I like being able to afford a house and be able to ride my bike out of my driveway and up into a canyon or to the lab in less than 15 minutes. I like being able to go fly fishing without driving an entire day, I like to go hiking without driving an entire day. All these things, I simply can't do in the valley and certainly not at $100k.
Republicans own the government right now. You'd have to be a damn *idiot* to side with the underdog when you're about to try pushing through a seriously dicey move that could piss off a lot of Americans.
Or you could stand up and fight for what you believe in.
This confirms the speculation that the RIAA would appoint a well-connected Republican (Rosen was a Democrat)."
:-)
Well, I suppose from this wording there will not be any political flame wars generated from this....
Nuclear energy IS clean.
And don't forget that burning coal high in uranium can release into the atmosphere as much radiation every day as was released by the Three Mile Island leak. Just look to the big coal plant in central Utah for an example.
"What will happen when the the oil is gone? What are they going to do? Die, or find something else?" So I would think the same with will happen.
Engineer in promoters for certain compounds that must be present for the organism to live. No sustaining compound....microbes die. This is very common in the lab, and I could imagine other potential applications such as radio frequency induced promoters that would trigger pre-programmed apoptosis pathways to eliminate bacteria when the job is accomplished.
The article is missing the single largest UNIX distribution in terms of licenses shipped, OS X. Of course this begs the argument made on Slashdot before, but given that I run much *nix code on my OS X boxes, many with a simple recompile, it's UNIX to me.
Of course, their fan was a monster, but I imagine that this could be done better with a cooler GPU like ATI's.
Or better case design. Take for example Apple's new G5. Apple made sure that the case has multiple zones with independent temperature controlled fans than can spin at lower RPM's depending upon the heat load. Of course this means you have more fans, but overall the system is much quieter.
Why the hell would you have a GeForceTi in a server?
Because my workstation is my server as well. OS X gives me the possibility of having one workstation run all of my *nix code, along with Photoshop, Office, IDL, Multispec, Safari, Mail, Keynote, etc...etc..etc... at the same time as functioning as a rather competent server all in a plug and play environment with a nice GUI on top.
The other issue we are going to be having is fan reliability. In servers, we can tell if fans go bad through notification. However, when the fan on my GeForceTi gave up the ghost last week, I only knew about it because I was in the case adding a card. With the proliferation of fans in computers, I would like to see either 1) built in software checks to identify fan status, or 2) more efficient passive cooling techniques that don't require fans. Having a truly silent PC on your desk is pretty nice as illustrated by the Apple Cube connected to a flat panel. Totally silent as opposed to my other workstations (Apple included).
That seems horribly inefficient!
I was under the impression that this had more to do with redundancy of complex data for purposes of security to ensure someone does not spoof data? If the analysis were to proceed by simply taking a derivative of the FFT and using that, the data would concievably be easier to forge? Perhaps this also is one of the reasons that the Seti@home crew is unwilling to make platform specific optimizations?
How could it have increased?
Perhaps the signal is from an object like a pulsar that is increasing in mass near its center and increasing its rate of spin a'la conservation of angular momentum? After all the first time a pulsar was discovered, it was thought to be "little green men".
I remember seeing one of these advertised in an Estes catalog back in the late seventies and drooling over the idea. Unfortunately, I was just a poor kid with little pocket money for rockets.
Estes had another version with (I think) 110 still camera film. We had a group of about ten of us that all saved up and bought one back then. The pictures were OK...... Sometimes all you got was blue sky, but other times they were pretty good except that you could never get the fins and the base of the rocket out of the picture.
Yeah, you got me there. It's been a long day. Time to leave work and go home....
What a square. I bet you always walk that extra 10 feet to get to the crosswalk too.
What a looser. I bet you always post Anonymous Coward too.
It sounds stupid to say this, but these guys just aren't as good as the seasoned tech people we have in the US. They can't see the big picture
In many cases, they can't see the big picture because they are only given small amounts of code to create or port rather than being given a larger perspective. One simply has to look and the many hundreds of programmers for IE to see this.
They lack the comprehensive technical immersion that we in the US have.
This may be changing faster than you might expect. The Indian government has made tech education a central component of their economic plans and judging from the quality of some of the programmers I've run into here in the US, we should be worried.
Most off-shore engineers were in non-technical jobs before they managed to go to college and learn how to program.
Oh? What is your evidence here? There are a great many folks that are getting targeted education in tech in India and elsewhere that brings them straight into their programming courses.
In 20, 50, 100 years I'm sure this technology gap will fade and perhaps even vanish, but certainly not in the short term.
I'm thinking 2, 5, 10 years.
Is it really as simple as money?
short answer is yes.
And don't forget benefits such as healthcare and retirement.
I'll work cheaper if I can choose where I live and work.
Not as cheap as someone oversees. What is considered good money in India wouldn't be a living wage in Silicon Valley, or in most of the United States.
Indeed. Especially considering that even $100k is not really even a living wage in Silicon Valley and that same $100k costs the employer approx $155k including benefits. That same job in many cases can be found in India for $5k or less. The issues to be overcome are language barriers, project management and innovation (or lack thereof with remotely managed projects).
Your point is especially clear when you consider some of the features that have gone into this simulator. Take for instance, the ability to feed out a signal via networking to another computer to render other views.
(It's easy to spot the geeky birds -- they have tape on their beaks.)
Is not this the classic image of a geek? Glasses with the middle taped up just above the beak. Or was that a nerd........
Unfortunately, his regard for the democratic process seems limited by his own biases.
Dean has apparently turned around on this issue. Physicians by nature historically tend to be fairly conservative with remedies other than those they have been trained with. (as it should be) As a physician, I am sure Dean wrestled with this and some of the other issues associated with its use (legal and otherwise).
The power to prescribe is, after all, the basis for doctors' wealth.
You might be surprised to know how little money many physicians make relative to the number of years of making little to no money and the number of hours they work.
In responding, please do not lecture me on the dire dangers and unproven benefits of pot. None of that is relevant.
The issues here are manifold and any simplistic answer is difficult to resolve and involve the inconsistent composition of marijuana among other items and who gets access to it.
The only relevant question is this: is it right to put sick people in jail in order to prevent them from smoking pot?
No. But that is most certainly not the only relevant question with this issue.
Please forgive me for stating the obvious, but just because you use the internet does not mean you are an expert in its history or technology. I use cars heavily every day, yet I do not consider myself an expert in car mechanics, nor their history, creation, or evolution.
:-)
What do you require for expertise? While I did not develop any of the protocols for the creation of the Internet, I do understand some of the theory of data transmission and security, I maintain servers, can configure networking needs both locally and remotely etc...etc...etc... while discussing the history, implementation and application of the Internet.
As for cars, given that one of my jobs through my undergraduate education was a mechanic restoring and maintaining antique and rare automobiles (including old Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, Studebakers, Cord's, etc...etc...) but I do not hold an official certification for being a mechanic, so I understand your point. But I can completely take apart, reassemble and improve an automobile while talking to you endlessly about their history, creation and evolution.