Google purchases their information from a third party. Any spy, then, could just purchase that data from the original party. What is it about this concept that seems to throw off counter-intelligence?
I'm not a Gentoo dev. Why then would I want to do compiles at all? I certainly do do compiles in my development environment... of the software that I author.
I haven't RTFA, but, yeah, compiling all of your software from scratch in a production environment every time you want to upgrade? That's ok. I'll pass.
Exactly. There is no mystery to this matter. Not many people rise from "programmer" to "head of the company" not only because there are simply fewer heads of companies, but because these are not the sorts of people who companies seriously look at for these positions.
It's not that technical people can't be good at these positions. There are plenty of fine examples of business units and management that come from technical backgrounds who do quite well. Look at Google. It's mostly a cultural thing.
Actually, it's just that Slashdot's core audience drifted. People with little to no interest in science and technology wanted to be "in the know." They read Slashdot, then they hammer on political topics, and it got so nutty that the new generation of editors started really hammering the political articles.
The major for that is physical education. That was the major that everyone in undergrad had when their only purpose in college was to play sports.
I think that the GP was putting forth the notion that football is a "guy" thing that women are unlikely to enjoy and therefore its topical inclusion in class assignments is indicative of gender bias.
It is funny, though, that very few of the comments under this article even remotely touch on any of the authors points.
Hod Lipson is a professor at Cornell University, not Carnegie Mellon, and the Cornell shield is completely visible in the photo, as are the words "Cornell University."
Incidentally, Tim Hunkin is totally cool and very accessible. He bought the rights to the show (if I recall, this was based on email correspondence with him years ago... I hope he doesn't get Slashdotted in his email box as a result.) He ENCOURAGES downloads via filesharing networks, and he even offered to burn DVDs for me a long time ago when I asked about it (but, I was an undergrad and international shipping plus DVD burning at the time wasn't cheap!)
Network protocols, like I said in the GP. The question isn't setting your system clock, the point is that you're also in sync with the other computers within microseconds. As a result, you can rely on communications protocols that use wall-clock time in their timestamp. Though this usage has largely been superseded by Chandy-Lamport style logical clocks, there are applications that can benefit from this sort of accuracy.
Lets consider something mundane and simple. I'm running an experiment on emulab, and I want to keep a log of everything that happens. I also want to know the exact internal state of the network over the time that the application operates. I can use logical timestamps, but this won't give me a real-time picture, at least, not what really happened. It will give me a plausible picture in the point of view of the network, effected by all things that were occurring in that network (traffic, latency). On the other hand, I'll have a perfect view of what really happened if I know that the clocks are in-sync. That's why emulab syncs its clocks before an experiment.
Now consider how this might effect other applications. Perhaps you have some sort of sensor network setup. Flying robotic cameras, and you want one long filmstrip as something flies past because you're making the fourth Matrix movie. They can sync with each other, or they can just tape. In one case, you have to clean up a bunch in post. In the other, the time on the film is reliable, the only variable is the position of the cameras, which can be fixed with lasers.
These are just a couple of applied uses off the top of my head. But, consider the use in network protocols. If you are going to use wall-clock time (unfixed, unsynced), then you must know that transmission and receipt of a message is greater than clock drift between the machines participating in the protocol, for instance.
The clocks in GPS are extremely accurate. Accurate enough to be used in communications protocols without clock sync or worry about too much drift. If I were at Apple and building GPS into all of my computers, my first thought would be using the clock as the system clock and then, how I could exploit the clock.
Apple is unlikely to screw its consumers with a bunch of lame proximity-based advertising.
More cores means more threads, which is all fine and lovely, unless you really need a single thread to do something very quickly. Perhaps the algorithm that you are implementing doesn't parallelize well, for instance.
On slashdot, the powers-that-be have given at least tacit recognition to the idea by providing a section, a home, as it were, for these kinds of issues.
Not at all. When YRO started, it was about ones rights online, not an online place to discuss ones rights.
I would suggest that your comparison is ill-chosen. Cars are technical; hence, a likely (and often-seen) subject for slashdot. Even though there isn't a section specifically for cars, as far as I know.
Sure, but it's not terribly interesting as a technical topic for most people if I'm discussing the appropriate grit of sandpaper for a paint job, or which supercharger I'm looking at buying. What new kinds of superchargers are available might even make it onto Slashdot though.
Rights, on the other hand, are an area of human activity that intersect with technical issues in significant ways.
Certainly. However, reading our postal mail is not one of them. The fact that human rights issues and technical issues have an intersection does not mean that all human rights issues are also technical issues any more than the fact that some people claim dual French/American citizenship makes me French.
I apologize. My intention was not to insult your intelligence. I would prefer that all stories be technically oriented. One does not need to be entirely narrow in their interests in order to be a "nerd," so it is completely understandable that you are concerned, however, that does not make this news for nerds. I'm working on my PhD, but I am also into cars. Does that mean that I should post car stuff to Slashdot? On the bulletin board of my computer science department?
There's some validity to a desire to talk about science and technology on Slashdot. It's "News for Nerds." This may be "Stuff that Matters," but it definitely is not "News for Nerds." We can't just say, "ZOMG! Politics is important, so lets make sure that we discuss it everywhere, and put our lives on hold otherwise."
Not that your argument doesn't hold any water, but in the case of Heroes, NBC offers the show online on their website. It can also be downloaded off of iTunes.
Not really. Sounding like a broken record harping a point over and over again is unlikely to sway anyone, particularly business customers who are going to purchase Vista because they're supposed to and home customers who will get it because it came with their machine. All of the other groups out there either tuned into their particular camps out of a nearly religious conviction or our of an active decision process. Those who actually make a well thought-out decision only need to be told once.
Ah yes, for the friend that you're hoping to help lose an arm over the holidays, here comes the tool to assure that they won't be able to sew it back on.
The DVD format was created and supported by some of America's favorite content providers; they are getting the royalties. The HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats are also supported by content providers. (Blu-ray very much so.) It is already known that the MPAA has more influence over politicians than one might expect. This might be another area for them to influence. On the bright side, maybe some companies will move manufacturing jobs back into this country to make DVD and hi-def players. Or at least the makers of DVD players might outsource to countries that are known to pay their workers. Right... but when was the last time that the US made a bunch of home electronics illegal? What I'm saying is is that this is putting the cart before the horse. They might very well make piracy illegal. The movie studios will probably refuse to make releases on these formats. I doubt that the US will make the players illegal.
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Google purchases their information from a third party. Any spy, then, could just purchase that data from the original party. What is it about this concept that seems to throw off counter-intelligence?
I'm not a Gentoo dev. Why then would I want to do compiles at all? I certainly do do compiles in my development environment... of the software that I author.
I haven't RTFA, but, yeah, compiling all of your software from scratch in a production environment every time you want to upgrade? That's ok. I'll pass.
See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/151823 1 "Why Don't More CIOs Become CEO?"
Exactly. There is no mystery to this matter. Not many people rise from "programmer" to "head of the company" not only because there are simply fewer heads of companies, but because these are not the sorts of people who companies seriously look at for these positions.
It's not that technical people can't be good at these positions. There are plenty of fine examples of business units and management that come from technical backgrounds who do quite well. Look at Google. It's mostly a cultural thing.
Actually, it's just that Slashdot's core audience drifted. People with little to no interest in science and technology wanted to be "in the know." They read Slashdot, then they hammer on political topics, and it got so nutty that the new generation of editors started really hammering the political articles.
The major for that is physical education. That was the major that everyone in undergrad had when their only purpose in college was to play sports.
I think that the GP was putting forth the notion that football is a "guy" thing that women are unlikely to enjoy and therefore its topical inclusion in class assignments is indicative of gender bias.
It is funny, though, that very few of the comments under this article even remotely touch on any of the authors points.
Hod Lipson is a professor at Cornell University, not Carnegie Mellon, and the Cornell shield is completely visible in the photo, as are the words "Cornell University."
The Secret Life of Machines was one of the best series ever.
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_M
Incidentally, Tim Hunkin is totally cool and very accessible. He bought the rights to the show (if I recall, this was based on email correspondence with him years ago... I hope he doesn't get Slashdotted in his email box as a result.) He ENCOURAGES downloads via filesharing networks, and he even offered to burn DVDs for me a long time ago when I asked about it (but, I was an undergrad and international shipping plus DVD burning at the time wasn't cheap!)
Video killed the electric car.
Network protocols, like I said in the GP. The question isn't setting your system clock, the point is that you're also in sync with the other computers within microseconds. As a result, you can rely on communications protocols that use wall-clock time in their timestamp. Though this usage has largely been superseded by Chandy-Lamport style logical clocks, there are applications that can benefit from this sort of accuracy.
Lets consider something mundane and simple. I'm running an experiment on emulab, and I want to keep a log of everything that happens. I also want to know the exact internal state of the network over the time that the application operates. I can use logical timestamps, but this won't give me a real-time picture, at least, not what really happened. It will give me a plausible picture in the point of view of the network, effected by all things that were occurring in that network (traffic, latency). On the other hand, I'll have a perfect view of what really happened if I know that the clocks are in-sync. That's why emulab syncs its clocks before an experiment.
Now consider how this might effect other applications. Perhaps you have some sort of sensor network setup. Flying robotic cameras, and you want one long filmstrip as something flies past because you're making the fourth Matrix movie. They can sync with each other, or they can just tape. In one case, you have to clean up a bunch in post. In the other, the time on the film is reliable, the only variable is the position of the cameras, which can be fixed with lasers.
These are just a couple of applied uses off the top of my head. But, consider the use in network protocols. If you are going to use wall-clock time (unfixed, unsynced), then you must know that transmission and receipt of a message is greater than clock drift between the machines participating in the protocol, for instance.
Also, I'm typing this from a PC.
Getting a new PC doesn't make any sense at all. It just gives the bot more resources to munch on.
The clocks in GPS are extremely accurate. Accurate enough to be used in communications protocols without clock sync or worry about too much drift. If I were at Apple and building GPS into all of my computers, my first thought would be using the clock as the system clock and then, how I could exploit the clock.
Apple is unlikely to screw its consumers with a bunch of lame proximity-based advertising.
Not really.
More cores means more threads, which is all fine and lovely, unless you really need a single thread to do something very quickly. Perhaps the algorithm that you are implementing doesn't parallelize well, for instance.
On slashdot, the powers-that-be have given at least tacit recognition to the idea by providing a section, a home, as it were, for these kinds of issues. Not at all. When YRO started, it was about ones rights online, not an online place to discuss ones rights. I would suggest that your comparison is ill-chosen. Cars are technical; hence, a likely (and often-seen) subject for slashdot. Even though there isn't a section specifically for cars, as far as I know. Sure, but it's not terribly interesting as a technical topic for most people if I'm discussing the appropriate grit of sandpaper for a paint job, or which supercharger I'm looking at buying. What new kinds of superchargers are available might even make it onto Slashdot though. Rights, on the other hand, are an area of human activity that intersect with technical issues in significant ways. Certainly. However, reading our postal mail is not one of them. The fact that human rights issues and technical issues have an intersection does not mean that all human rights issues are also technical issues any more than the fact that some people claim dual French/American citizenship makes me French.
I apologize. My intention was not to insult your intelligence. I would prefer that all stories be technically oriented. One does not need to be entirely narrow in their interests in order to be a "nerd," so it is completely understandable that you are concerned, however, that does not make this news for nerds. I'm working on my PhD, but I am also into cars. Does that mean that I should post car stuff to Slashdot? On the bulletin board of my computer science department?
There's some validity to a desire to talk about science and technology on Slashdot. It's "News for Nerds." This may be "Stuff that Matters," but it definitely is not "News for Nerds." We can't just say, "ZOMG! Politics is important, so lets make sure that we discuss it everywhere, and put our lives on hold otherwise."
Billions of dollars and no need to turn a profit later?
Not that your argument doesn't hold any water, but in the case of Heroes, NBC offers the show online on their website. It can also be downloaded off of iTunes.
I had a Toyota Celica that I would get that out of when I was at highway speeds.
I think that if a Prius gets in the HOV lane for that, then a Celica should as well.
Yawn
Not really. Sounding like a broken record harping a point over and over again is unlikely to sway anyone, particularly business customers who are going to purchase Vista because they're supposed to and home customers who will get it because it came with their machine. All of the other groups out there either tuned into their particular camps out of a nearly religious conviction or our of an active decision process. Those who actually make a well thought-out decision only need to be told once.
Ah yes, for the friend that you're hoping to help lose an arm over the holidays, here comes the tool to assure that they won't be able to sew it back on.
On the bright side, maybe some companies will move manufacturing jobs back into this country to make DVD and hi-def players. Or at least the makers of DVD players might outsource to countries that are known to pay their workers. Right... but when was the last time that the US made a bunch of home electronics illegal? What I'm saying is is that this is putting the cart before the horse. They might very well make piracy illegal. The movie studios will probably refuse to make releases on these formats. I doubt that the US will make the players illegal.
No doubt the USA would make importation of EVD illegal.
Why?
Actually, it's just a return of an old meme where everything is more interesting when it's done quietly. Like it's some conspiratorial move.