Substitute "java" for "foo" and my real name for "marcus". Got me hired, twice. Both times, after the interviewer brought that page up on his laptop, conversation changed from job oriented to general, by the watercooler style, BSing. They *knew* I was capable, instantly.
Punishment and reward both have long and successful histories as training tools. The failures of the current criminal justice system have nothing to do with the base concepts, rather the implementation. Add to that there is no market for criminals, they are not bought, sold and consumed.
Back to energy consumption or conservation, it is a false goal. Every watt that I save today will be consumed by the child born tomorrow, no matter what. If I make conservation a goal in itself, all I will do is artificailly decrease demand, putting downward pressure on prices which will cause others to increase consumption and thus wiping out my conservation efforts.
In a free market, consumption and conservation are both natural. If you want to see some real reduction in the consumption of anything, all you have to do is reduce the supply. The price will rise and demand will drop.
Really, if you want to see less oil burned in the US, start blowing up tankers and pipelines. Prices will jump immediately, and the price of compact cars will too.
Finally, there are two things that directly contribute to improvement of standard of living. One is education, the other is the cost of energy. If you had to till the soil all day to feed yourself, your energy consumption would be very low, as would your SoL. OTOH, if you had a fuel powered tiller to help, you'd be able to either do more and then sell the extra or spend less time and have some time off. Bingo, energy consumption = SoL This assumes that by selling the excess, you can afford to buy some more fuel...there must be a market for your products.
So, it is really easy to conserve energy if you are serious about it. Go homeless. You'll see your energy consumption and SoL drop to almost zero.
No one had ever flown a Saturn Five with a full crew before someone did it.
No one had ever flown the Lunar Module in a vacuum at 1/6 G before someone did it.
No one had ever flown across the Atlantic until someone did it. And when he did it, he took off with more fuel than that airplane had ever carried before.
Notice that none of these record setting, adventurous people are your everyday pampered consumers smothered in the over protective blankets of civil litigation. They are willing and able to take measured risks and do it successfully.
When the potential boss asks what kind of programs I have written using foo and I suggest he google for foo and my name and the first three hits are about my contributions to three different online foo based projects.
Publishing your code is a major display of confidence.
Considering my education and that I have worked for a couple of aerospace companies and for NASA/JPL, and that I have been a licensed pilot for two thirds of my life, I'd say that I, random Joe Slashdot Reader know a good bit about the subject.
OTOH, indeed he does know what he's doing, he's building radical craft and flying them. What most readers don't seem to realize is that anomalous behavior does not imply a CRASH!
Bullshit. There is enough food in the world to feed everyone
Can you read? Can you comprehend? If so, answer this question: Is there enough food for today's population plus another billion? How about two or three billion?
So you're not really a very nice person, are you
Irrelevant it might be, but it provides insight to your intellect or lack thereof. Someday, perhaps the day you die, you'll discover that the universe is not nice, and thinking "nice" does not solve nasty problems. One of those things that I consider criminal and worthy of sterilization is willful ignorance in the face of reality. For now, I can just hope we're lucky and you don't have any kids - naturally.
If someone else burns their family and I buy lighter fluid using their card, where is the connection? It's not useful evidence.
So what if the police trace my card to the purchase of lighter fluid and charcoal in Alaska. It won't implicate me if my family is burned here in Texas. Even better if the surveillance video of "me" making the purchase shows "me" with long brunette hair and a skirt. That's really good evidence.;-)
Once the police realize that they have the wrong data, over and over and over again, then they won't even try to trace the use of club ID cards anymore.
Finally, the last(and should be first) resort is to simply fill out the club membership form with false data, especially the email address.;-)
For a human to have kids when they know that they cannot feed them? Is it "humane"? Or is it insane?
The fact of the matter is, "world hunger" will not be solved without some form of population control. IF you were to snap your fingers and have enough food and health care instantly available for the current needy population, all you would do is double or triple the population in less than a generation.
Most places that have pulled themselves out of the muck have solved this with education. The Chinese, recognizing that their situation was desperate, have solved it with force. Others have not tried to solve it at all, and so they are still poor, diseased, ignorant, and starving with no hope in sight.
In the US, we have managed to pull most of our population out of the squalor by the sheer strength of our economy. Still we have problems that would be solved in a generation if we practiced some form of enforced birth control. Consider what would happen to our welfare system if every child was sterilized at birth and then as an adult had to pay for an operation to restore it to fertility.
While I don't advocate this, I do think that there are some forms of behavior that ought to be criminal, that aren't. I also think that the sentances for some crimes should include sterilisation.
Is to trade cards with strangers and always pay with cash.
I don't know whose discount club cards I have anymore. The last time I traded mine was with a couple from Alaska(I live in Texas). So as far as I know, Brookshires now thinks I live in AK and a couple from AK has moved to TX.
After you trade, don't use plastic to pay, ever. If you do, they'll be able to re-associate their card with the credit card.
It's easy, next time you go to the store just ask the person next to you in line if they are worried about privacy issues. If they say yes, offer to trade cards. You will certainly be able to defeat any sort of "police" action associated with the cards as well.
Convince enough people, and revolt! That is the normal progression for governments. They last until enough don't want them anymore. Then new and sometimes different ones automagically come into existance.
There are current systems in place that some people appreciate so much that they are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to maintain them. It might take an equivalent sacrifice on your part. Go for it! While you're at it, be sure to submit a patent on your new system of gov so no one else can use it.
The current processing bottleneck, and the reason for caches in the first place, is the bandwidth between the processor and the memory. A "normal" memory bus cannot keep up. This is why you see so many attempts to speed this particular part of the system up. There is RAMBUS, DDR, even HyperLink.
What these guys are trying to do is move the processor to the memory rather than the inverse. Having fast expensive caches near the processor is an attempt to get the memory closer to the proc. What has been happening of late is that lots and lots of on-chip transistors have been spent on the cache. The Cell architecture is a step in the other direction. They want to spend those transistors on processors instead of memory.
At the limit of this idea you would see something like a super-granulated architecture with a processor on each memory chip. Imagine a PC with 32/64/whatever cell processors *and* no classic "processor socket" on the motherboard, just some DIMM-like "cell" slots. Each proc would have exclusive access to the memory on its own chip and all would communicate via some sort of bus or fabric of links. So, instead of one mega proc with tens of millions of transistors(perhaps half would be cache) at 4GHz with a 400MHz x 32, 64, 128, whatever bit width memory bus you'd have maybe 64, 128, 256? simple ARM-like procs at 400MHz each with something like 400MBs or more available memory bandwidth per proc.
Of course the extreme limit would be to have millions of 1 bit processors, but I don't think that anyone is proposing that just yet. Things do get more and more neuron-like as you approach this limit, interesting eh?
Sometimes you just have to live with it and slog your way through.
Schedules and design reviews be dammed we have a product to deliver!
Design, document, go over hardware design docs, code, configure simulator to mimic the hardware, test and debug in sim, debug the sim configuration, build various utils that you expect to help test the hardware...It all sounds great and proper by the book but doesn't mean jack until you and the hardware EE get your hands on the real stuff. First you have to pass the smoke test, then the clocks, then flash preload. Does it boot? Can we reload the flash via JTAG? No, can you flash an LED? No, does the BDM work? No, what's the matter? Eventually you find that all of the address/data lines on the processor are hooked up backwards. Instead of signals 0-31 attached to pins 0-7, 8-15, 16-23 and 24-31 they are all reversed 31-24 0-7, etc. How you ask? It turns out that the intern who did such a standup job building the schematic capture symbols and package database back in the summertime(who is now back in school) screwed up. *Sigh* Arrgh Did anybody check his work? We should have done a line-by-line after we laid out the board. Are there any other errors? Can we re-map the hardware and the address decoders? Yes, thankfully most of it goes through an FPGA...
That's just the beginning of bringing up some new hardware.
Sometimes it is not the code that counts, but your approach. Are you applying for a software "design" position? If so, then show some evidence of designing something before you code. Consider the position you are targeting. Application software? Embedded firmware with restricted resources? Is pure speed important? Code size? Maintainability? Portability? Ask for a more detailed spec if what is given is too vague, or just put comments in your code showing where things should/could be changed if your interpretation of the spec is wrong.
If you are competent, you'll be OK. Every coding position I've ever had included a skills test, except one. The one exception was for a position at a company that I had already worked for in the past...
The air you breathe is processed, filtered, temperature and humidity regulated. That costs money and customers are people who are willing to pay for "atmosphere" which usually does include special lighting.
They pay for water, for toilets, for square footage.
That gravity that's holding your ass to the seat, that's called "real estate". Underneath your fat ass is dirt and that is where the gravity comes from.
What's so far off the mark? Another poster noted that restaurants are in the service industry, not the food industry. He is exactly on target. Power is just another potential service that they can market just like any utility(service) company. Hell, they could even improve the power and advertise "uninterruptible" for a premium if they thought there was a market for it.
The cheapest way I can think of to do this is with a host-to-host SCSI link. It should be doable with 1394 as well, but I have no data there, only theory. The second host can be as big or small, expensive or cheap as he desires. All he needs is a SCSI card for his laptop. He could even use some old(AKA free) PC to host the PCI bus.
Does he know how to write code or does he need a plug-n-play solution?
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Don't worry about cross platform stuff. Choose something open and it can be ported, even to new, currently non-existant platforms.
Open algorithms, open source, no BS, makes your choice easy.
Hahaha, no, actually I am a C++ despiser! ;-)
Substitute "java" for "foo" and my real name for "marcus". Got me hired, twice. Both times, after the interviewer brought that page up on his laptop, conversation changed from job oriented to general, by the watercooler style, BSing. They *knew* I was capable, instantly.
Indeed, any form of muscle cancer is very rare. Cancer of the bicep or perhaps abdominals anyone?
You analogy is bullshit.
Punishment and reward both have long and successful histories as training tools. The failures of the current criminal justice system have nothing to do with the base concepts, rather the implementation. Add to that there is no market for criminals, they are not bought, sold and consumed.
Back to energy consumption or conservation, it is a false goal. Every watt that I save today will be consumed by the child born tomorrow, no matter what. If I make conservation a goal in itself, all I will do is artificailly decrease demand, putting downward pressure on prices which will cause others to increase consumption and thus wiping out my conservation efforts.
In a free market, consumption and conservation are both natural. If you want to see some real reduction in the consumption of anything, all you have to do is reduce the supply. The price will rise and demand will drop.
Really, if you want to see less oil burned in the US, start blowing up tankers and pipelines. Prices will jump immediately, and the price of compact cars will too.
Finally, there are two things that directly contribute to improvement of standard of living. One is education, the other is the cost of energy. If you had to till the soil all day to feed yourself, your energy consumption would be very low, as would your SoL. OTOH, if you had a fuel powered tiller to help, you'd be able to either do more and then sell the extra or spend less time and have some time off. Bingo, energy consumption = SoL This assumes that by selling the excess, you can afford to buy some more fuel...there must be a market for your products.
So, it is really easy to conserve energy if you are serious about it. Go homeless. You'll see your energy consumption and SoL drop to almost zero.
Cheers,
No one had ever flown a Saturn Five with a full crew before someone did it.
No one had ever flown the Lunar Module in a vacuum at 1/6 G before someone did it.
No one had ever flown across the Atlantic until someone did it. And when he did it, he took off with more fuel than that airplane had ever carried before.
Notice that none of these record setting, adventurous people are your everyday pampered consumers smothered in the over protective blankets of civil litigation. They are willing and able to take measured risks and do it successfully.
When the potential boss asks what kind of programs I have written using foo and I suggest he google for foo and my name and the first three hits are about my contributions to three different online foo based projects.
Publishing your code is a major display of confidence.
Considering my education and that I have worked for a couple of aerospace companies and for NASA/JPL, and that I have been a licensed pilot for two thirds of my life, I'd say that I, random Joe Slashdot Reader know a good bit about the subject.
OTOH, indeed he does know what he's doing, he's building radical craft and flying them. What most readers don't seem to realize is that anomalous behavior does not imply a CRASH!
You do mean weigh more because it is less bouyant don't you?
If you write code and it needs optimizing, you will hand profile and optimize. If it does not need optimizing, you won't.
Simple.
Hey, perhaps after they've finished with the Indian Ocean, they could go and survey the Pacific floor where that SSN crashed a few months ago...
Bullshit. There is enough food in the world to feed everyone
Can you read? Can you comprehend? If so, answer this question: Is there enough food for today's population plus another billion? How about two or three billion?
So you're not really a very nice person, are you
Irrelevant it might be, but it provides insight to your intellect or lack thereof. Someday, perhaps the day you die, you'll discover that the universe is not nice, and thinking "nice" does not solve nasty problems. One of those things that I consider criminal and worthy of sterilization is willful ignorance in the face of reality. For now, I can just hope we're lucky and you don't have any kids - naturally.
Try again.
;-)
;-)
There won't be any connection is the whole point.
If someone else burns their family and I buy lighter fluid using their card, where is the connection? It's not useful evidence.
So what if the police trace my card to the purchase of lighter fluid and charcoal in Alaska. It won't implicate me if my family is burned here in Texas. Even better if the surveillance video of "me" making the purchase shows "me" with long brunette hair and a skirt. That's really good evidence.
Once the police realize that they have the wrong data, over and over and over again, then they won't even try to trace the use of club ID cards anymore.
Finally, the last(and should be first) resort is to simply fill out the club membership form with false data, especially the email address.
For a human to have kids when they know that they cannot feed them? Is it "humane"? Or is it insane?
The fact of the matter is, "world hunger" will not be solved without some form of population control. IF you were to snap your fingers and have enough food and health care instantly available for the current needy population, all you would do is double or triple the population in less than a generation.
Most places that have pulled themselves out of the muck have solved this with education. The Chinese, recognizing that their situation was desperate, have solved it with force. Others have not tried to solve it at all, and so they are still poor, diseased, ignorant, and starving with no hope in sight.
In the US, we have managed to pull most of our population out of the squalor by the sheer strength of our economy. Still we have problems that would be solved in a generation if we practiced some form of enforced birth control. Consider what would happen to our welfare system if every child was sterilized at birth and then as an adult had to pay for an operation to restore it to fertility.
While I don't advocate this, I do think that there are some forms of behavior that ought to be criminal, that aren't. I also think that the sentances for some crimes should include sterilisation.
Is to trade cards with strangers and always pay with cash.
I don't know whose discount club cards I have anymore. The last time I traded mine was with a couple from Alaska(I live in Texas). So as far as I know, Brookshires now thinks I live in AK and a couple from AK has moved to TX.
After you trade, don't use plastic to pay, ever. If you do, they'll be able to re-associate their card with the credit card.
It's easy, next time you go to the store just ask the person next to you in line if they are worried about privacy issues. If they say yes, offer to trade cards. You will certainly be able to defeat any sort of "police" action associated with the cards as well.
Convince enough people, and revolt! That is the normal progression for governments. They last until enough don't want them anymore. Then new and sometimes different ones automagically come into existance.
There are current systems in place that some people appreciate so much that they are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to maintain them. It might take an equivalent sacrifice on your part. Go for it! While you're at it, be sure to submit a patent on your new system of gov so no one else can use it.
Good Luck!
It's about twice as big as it was when my sis gave it to me. It has even been harvested a couple of times.
;-)
Other than than what could be more geeky than quadrotriticale
If you can't find any sprouts or seeds of that, then get some of this instead. You can get it here Just plant 4 pots and fudge it!
The current processing bottleneck, and the reason for caches in the first place, is the bandwidth between the processor and the memory. A "normal" memory bus cannot keep up. This is why you see so many attempts to speed this particular part of the system up. There is RAMBUS, DDR, even HyperLink.
What these guys are trying to do is move the processor to the memory rather than the inverse. Having fast expensive caches near the processor is an attempt to get the memory closer to the proc. What has been happening of late is that lots and lots of on-chip transistors have been spent on the cache. The Cell architecture is a step in the other direction. They want to spend those transistors on processors instead of memory.
At the limit of this idea you would see something like a super-granulated architecture with a processor on each memory chip. Imagine a PC with 32/64/whatever cell processors *and* no classic "processor socket" on the motherboard, just some DIMM-like "cell" slots. Each proc would have exclusive access to the memory on its own chip and all would communicate via some sort of bus or fabric of links. So, instead of one mega proc with tens of millions of transistors(perhaps half would be cache) at 4GHz with a 400MHz x 32, 64, 128, whatever bit width memory bus you'd have maybe 64, 128, 256? simple ARM-like procs at 400MHz each with something like 400MBs or more available memory bandwidth per proc.
Of course the extreme limit would be to have millions of 1 bit processors, but I don't think that anyone is proposing that just yet. Things do get more and more neuron-like as you approach this limit, interesting eh?
Sometimes you just have to live with it and slog your way through.
Schedules and design reviews be dammed we have a product to deliver!
Design, document, go over hardware design docs, code, configure simulator to mimic the hardware, test and debug in sim, debug the sim configuration, build various utils that you expect to help test the hardware...It all sounds great and proper by the book but doesn't mean jack until you and the hardware EE get your hands on the real stuff. First you have to pass the smoke test, then the clocks, then flash preload. Does it boot? Can we reload the flash via JTAG? No, can you flash an LED? No, does the BDM work? No, what's the matter? Eventually you find that all of the address/data lines on the processor are hooked up backwards. Instead of signals 0-31 attached to pins 0-7, 8-15, 16-23 and 24-31 they are all reversed 31-24 0-7, etc. How you ask? It turns out that the intern who did such a standup job building the schematic capture symbols and package database back in the summertime(who is now back in school) screwed up. *Sigh* Arrgh Did anybody check his work? We should have done a line-by-line after we laid out the board. Are there any other errors? Can we re-map the hardware and the address decoders? Yes, thankfully most of it goes through an FPGA...
That's just the beginning of bringing up some new hardware.
Sometimes it is not the code that counts, but your approach. Are you applying for a software "design" position? If so, then show some evidence of designing something before you code. Consider the position you are targeting. Application software? Embedded firmware with restricted resources? Is pure speed important? Code size? Maintainability? Portability? Ask for a more detailed spec if what is given is too vague, or just put comments in your code showing where things should/could be changed if your interpretation of the spec is wrong.
If you are competent, you'll be OK. Every coding position I've ever had included a skills test, except one. The one exception was for a position at a company that I had already worked for in the past...
I guess the gaming industry is maturing if it is starting to have critiques of critics.
Just like the rest of the entertainment industry.
I think he was remarking on the possibility that you might die before you get there. In other words,
Current_Technology + Interstellar_Travel = A_VERY_Long_Time
Where A_VERY_Long_Time is on the order of decades or even centuries.
That's what I think it is. It is the remains of an an ancient and degraded alien mag-lev launcher.
Restaurants definitely pay for their air.
The air you breathe is processed, filtered, temperature and humidity regulated. That costs money and customers are people who are willing to pay for "atmosphere" which usually does include special lighting.
They pay for water, for toilets, for square footage.
That gravity that's holding your ass to the seat, that's called "real estate". Underneath your fat ass is dirt and that is where the gravity comes from.
What's so far off the mark? Another poster noted that restaurants are in the service industry, not the food industry. He is exactly on target. Power is just another potential service that they can market just like any utility(service) company. Hell, they could even improve the power and advertise "uninterruptible" for a premium if they thought there was a market for it.
The cheapest way I can think of to do this is with a host-to-host SCSI link. It should be doable with 1394 as well, but I have no data there, only theory. The second host can be as big or small, expensive or cheap as he desires. All he needs is a SCSI card for his laptop. He could even use some old(AKA free) PC to host the PCI bus.
Does he know how to write code or does he need a plug-n-play solution?
"Makes things look real clean"