After a while people are no longer eligable and so they stop registering as unemployed, the statistics assume they are employed which isn't necessarily the case.
To clarify, the statistics don't assume they are employed. Actually, a clarification of terms is in order:
Employed: duh. Unemployed: Not currently employed but looking for a job Everyone else: Not currently employed and not looking for a job
The percent of the population that is unemployed == (unemployed)/(employed + unemployed). If you're out of work and not looking for work, you don't count.
[Ms Farrell] pointed out that the Bureau of Labour Statistics was predicting a job gain of 22m in the US by '10, against a job loss of 2m due to offshoring.
According to the labor predictions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total growth of jobs between 2000 and 2010 is 22,160,000 jobs. Surely you can't account for all of this growth strictly based on one aspect of corporate behavior.
Also, to satisfy the cynic in me, remember that these are merely predictions, which are possibly skewed to make the current market look like it'll be stronger, which will in turn (hopefully) make investors and consumers more confident, (hopefully) making the economy stronger.
Lastly, could this also be like George Bush's predictions that there would be approx. 1.7 million new jobs last year, as opposed to the 53,000 jobs lost last year (as reported by CBS news tonight).
Tradeoffs have always been made regarding efficiency, among the most important in recent years being the necessity for affordably maintainable code, combined with the decreasing importance of having super efficient code. IMO, this discourages most who are currently learning how to program from mastering the art of designing and analyzing the runtime of code. I personally had many many arguments with someone I worked with who kept insisting that runtime didn't matter anymore on current machines. In the meantime, his awful code (by and large) kept system load on our development server above 2 for most of the development day. I shudder what would have happened if we'd moved that over to our production server....
Actually, my phone (Motorla t720) claims to be able to support GPS-enable programs that allow it to download local weather info, maps/restaurant/entertainment info and so on, with non-free services, of course. =-\
Although I haven't specifically tried to use these features (what can I say -- I'm cheap! =-P ), it does seem to be able to disable the full GPS functionality (it's supposed to prompt you if you wish to send your location) or allow e911 service only.
And what about the enforcability of implied agreement to EULAs (e.g., if you use the software without having to click 'accept' because the software was pre-installed that way, you're bound to the EULA)? Is there a lawyer in the house?
Of course, this doesn't apply to all pre-installed software. A number of programs that come now require you to agree to an EULA before you are allowed to use the program, but what about Windows or any software that is pre-installed that doesn't require you to do so? If the user never clicked 'Accept', can he/she still be bound to the EULA as if he/she had clicked it, merely by using the software?
I think having software "expire" is a horrible idea -- a lot of people I know like to use software that's been out for a while to make sure there are not obvious security flaws. Instead, since security concerns are primarily centered around networked machines (more specifically, ones connected to the Internet), just have the software periodically (weekly? monthly?) connect to some server somewhere and check for security updates.
The AmigaOneG3-SE supports 133MHz FSB SDRAM. (According to our engineers DDR memory doesn't gain anything in help PPC board design).
Why not support DDR? Its performance improvement has been quite well demonstrated in the x86 platform. Assuming that the PPC architecture won't see any benefits from DDR technology is silly. With the widening gap between I/O latency and CPU performance, any technology that improves latency (or at the very least bandwidth) will improve performance. I can only think of two possible reasons for this. The second I'll get back to in a moment. The first is that there is a problem inherent to the north bridge they are using or to the motherboard itself. This, of course, could be indicative of manufacturing problems or possibly of lower quality parts.
As far as the CPU is concerned the first series of boards will use a 600 MHz G3 CPU and will come with this soldered in place, thereby keeping the costs as low as possible. As G4's fall in price/become more available we may also offer a soldered in place G4 CPU option as well. If we can engineer the costs of a socketed/chip carrier version with CPU to be no more than 15% above the price of a soldered-in CPU equivalent then we will consider producing these versions.
Why not offer a socketed solution? Granted, they're currently only offering a testing mobo, but that's no reason to put off releasing a mobo without the ability to upgrade the CPU. Apple has already created technology that allows CPUs to be mounted on daughterboards that are upgradeable (effectively the x86 slotted CPU equivalent). Basing their socket on this technology could, potentially, allow users to upgrade their CPUs using currently-available parts.
imho, these are two bad indications that the mobo is either being released too soon (hence, possibly the DDR and slot/socket solution problems) or that the company is looking to stall to earn more profits. By releasing a mobo that is missing some desired functionality, they can guarantee additional profits in the short-run from users looking to upgrade their CPU/mobo combos (of course, that's a required bundled upgrade as well).
Sadly, I don't believe Dolby 5.1 digital output still is supported by the EMU10K1 (SB Live) drivers. This despite the fact that the SB Live Dolby 5.1 capable cards have been out for quite some time. How can you expect to fully test a new sound card under an open source OS's when features that have been out about a year still aren't supported?
If more satellites for a GPS-like system, wouldn't it be possible to get a more accurate fix on your location? According to this page, three satellites are required to get a fix on your location (four to perform time correction). However, a number of problems exist: (taken from above site)
1. The receiver clock is not exactly synchronized with the satellite clock so the time of flight will be imprecise.
2.The satellite and receiver are in different velocity reference frames and gravitational regimes so there are relativistic differences (both special and general)
3. The speed of light is 300,000 km/s in a vaccum. However, while travelling through the Earth Ionosphere and Troposphere, the radio waves travel at slightly slower speeds
4. Radio signals traveling through the atmosphere travel differents paths depending on the location of the receiver.
Although the first problem is correctable using a fourth satellite, the remaining three problems persist. However, if you receive signals from several satellites (not just your minimum 4), if you average your reported locations, you should be able to get a more accurate fix on your location.
Does anybody here remember the movie Sneakers? It's a bit old (1992), but still very good. A team of guys normally hired to physically break into places to prove it can be done and find weaknesses in security are hired for a slightly more illegal mission than their usual fare -- to steal a mysterious black box from a famous mathematician. While screwing around with it, they find it is a mathematical wonder capable of bypassing any US encryption system. Great geek movie, and definitely underrated in this review. =-)
Well of course Ellison would shamelessly promote Oracle to create a National ID. If he doesn't make his money off selling the database software itself (which he claims he won't), he'll make it off consulting fees or upgrades.
hmmm....assuming that since binary data and encrypted data theoretically should all look the same, the government would assumedly be forced to scan all binary data streaming across the 'net. No easy task. Could it be possible to perform a mass DOS on the system by registering tons of encryption systems with backdoors? Each additional encryption method would increase runtime pretty significantly. Anyone feel like another encryption challenge? Perhaps this time, to implement the backdoor that takes the longest time to calculate?
> make their scale-model fusion generator produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in
Umm....according to the article, fusion reactors haven't really produced large quantities of power. The linked article states, "The experimental tokamaks that exist around the world, such as the Joint European Torus (JET) reactor at Culham near Oxford, have to date not progressed far beyond the break-even point."
But, at least they're finally producing energy now. =-)
An interesting variant on this might be to actually study the number of hours actually spent coding Linux. Then you could theoretically figure out how much more productive volunteered man hours are than paid man hours (or vice-versa). Has anyone out there seen something like this?
From what I hear, there has been a recent trend towards universities trying to spin off businesses based on patents they themeselves hold. I have myself been a part of such a patent and was a part of a development team for soon to be spinoff that had problems getting off the ground an thus was killed. Has anyone else heard of this phenomenon?
Bloat hell is bad, granted. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Not that I'm advocating the disuse of shared code, but with 60GB 7400RPM hdds at $150 or so, we can afford to have a little bloat.
It appears that even the NSA isn't invulnerable from the slashdot effect at 5:00 in the morning EDT. I wonder how bad it's gonna be at 10 or 11 AM.... =-)
This was a big problem with Lithium Ion batteries many years ago. Although Apple caugh a lot of the flak for having laptops that caught fire (as duely noted in previous posts), many laptop manufacturers at the time had similar problems. It's too bad that we are seeing this again.
....and using no moving parts no less. The only problem? Things need to be kept at differing wavelengths (such as network broadcasts), thus biting into bandwidth a little. Nevertheless, if you're churning packets out with 5ns delays, it probably won't matter anyway!:-D
This is the most ludicrous thing I've heard in a long time. It's bad enough that people are blaming violent tv shows and video games for Columbines. Now these people have so adequately convinced themselves of the "cause" that they are pursuing legal action against the companies they think are responsible! This is craziness. Everybody needs to just stop, take a step back from the madness and actually listen to the kids. Jumping to these hasty conclusions (especially ones with so little collaborating research) is going to get us in the end.
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Employed: duh.
Unemployed: Not currently employed but looking for a job
Everyone else: Not currently employed and not looking for a job
The percent of the population that is unemployed == (unemployed)/(employed + unemployed). If you're out of work and not looking for work, you don't count.
Also, to satisfy the cynic in me, remember that these are merely predictions, which are possibly skewed to make the current market look like it'll be stronger, which will in turn (hopefully) make investors and consumers more confident, (hopefully) making the economy stronger.
Lastly, could this also be like George Bush's predictions that there would be approx. 1.7 million new jobs last year, as opposed to the 53,000 jobs lost last year (as reported by CBS news tonight).
Tradeoffs have always been made regarding efficiency, among the most important in recent years being the necessity for affordably maintainable code, combined with the decreasing importance of having super efficient code. IMO, this discourages most who are currently learning how to program from mastering the art of designing and analyzing the runtime of code. I personally had many many arguments with someone I worked with who kept insisting that runtime didn't matter anymore on current machines. In the meantime, his awful code (by and large) kept system load on our development server above 2 for most of the development day. I shudder what would have happened if we'd moved that over to our production server....
Actually, my phone (Motorla t720) claims to be able to support GPS-enable programs that allow it to download local weather info, maps/restaurant/entertainment info and so on, with non-free services, of course. =-\
Although I haven't specifically tried to use these features (what can I say -- I'm cheap! =-P ), it does seem to be able to disable the full GPS functionality (it's supposed to prompt you if you wish to send your location) or allow e911 service only.
And what about the enforcability of implied agreement to EULAs (e.g., if you use the software without having to click 'accept' because the software was pre-installed that way, you're bound to the EULA)? Is there a lawyer in the house?
Of course, this doesn't apply to all pre-installed software. A number of programs that come now require you to agree to an EULA before you are allowed to use the program, but what about Windows or any software that is pre-installed that doesn't require you to do so? If the user never clicked 'Accept', can he/she still be bound to the EULA as if he/she had clicked it, merely by using the software?
Why, that's simple. You can Karma Whore at slashdot.org! :-)
I think having software "expire" is a horrible idea -- a lot of people I know like to use software that's been out for a while to make sure there are not obvious security flaws. Instead, since security concerns are primarily centered around networked machines (more specifically, ones connected to the Internet), just have the software periodically (weekly? monthly?) connect to some server somewhere and check for security updates.
The AmigaOneG3-SE supports 133MHz FSB SDRAM. (According to our engineers DDR memory doesn't gain anything in help PPC board design).
Why not support DDR? Its performance improvement has been quite well demonstrated in the x86 platform. Assuming that the PPC architecture won't see any benefits from DDR technology is silly. With the widening gap between I/O latency and CPU performance, any technology that improves latency (or at the very least bandwidth) will improve performance. I can only think of two possible reasons for this. The second I'll get back to in a moment. The first is that there is a problem inherent to the north bridge they are using or to the motherboard itself. This, of course, could be indicative of manufacturing problems or possibly of lower quality parts.
As far as the CPU is concerned the first series of boards will use a 600 MHz G3 CPU and will come with this soldered in place, thereby keeping the costs as low as possible. As G4's fall in price/become more available we may also offer a soldered in place G4 CPU option as well. If we can engineer the costs of a socketed/chip carrier version with CPU to be no more than 15% above the price of a soldered-in CPU equivalent then we will consider producing these versions.
Why not offer a socketed solution? Granted, they're currently only offering a testing mobo, but that's no reason to put off releasing a mobo without the ability to upgrade the CPU. Apple has already created technology that allows CPUs to be mounted on daughterboards that are upgradeable (effectively the x86 slotted CPU equivalent). Basing their socket on this technology could, potentially, allow users to upgrade their CPUs using currently-available parts.
imho, these are two bad indications that the mobo is either being released too soon (hence, possibly the DDR and slot/socket solution problems) or that the company is looking to stall to earn more profits. By releasing a mobo that is missing some desired functionality, they can guarantee additional profits in the short-run from users looking to upgrade their CPU/mobo combos (of course, that's a required bundled upgrade as well).
umm...it seems to me that Free as in Beer means Free as in Energy. Unless you mean to say Free as in it doesn't exist.... =-)
Sadly, I don't believe Dolby 5.1 digital output still is supported by the EMU10K1 (SB Live) drivers. This despite the fact that the SB Live Dolby 5.1 capable cards have been out for quite some time. How can you expect to fully test a new sound card under an open source OS's when features that have been out about a year still aren't supported?
If more satellites for a GPS-like system, wouldn't it be possible to get a more accurate fix on your location? According to this page, three satellites are required to get a fix on your location (four to perform time correction). However, a number of problems exist: (taken from above site)
1. The receiver clock is not exactly synchronized with the satellite clock so the time of flight will be imprecise.
2.The satellite and receiver are in different velocity reference frames and gravitational regimes so there are relativistic differences (both special and general)
3. The speed of light is 300,000 km/s in a vaccum. However, while travelling through the Earth Ionosphere and Troposphere, the radio waves travel at slightly slower speeds
4. Radio signals traveling through the atmosphere travel differents paths depending on the location of the receiver.
Although the first problem is correctable using a fourth satellite, the remaining three problems persist. However, if you receive signals from several satellites (not just your minimum 4), if you average your reported locations, you should be able to get a more accurate fix on your location.
Does anybody here remember the movie Sneakers? It's a bit old (1992), but still very good. A team of guys normally hired to physically break into places to prove it can be done and find weaknesses in security are hired for a slightly more illegal mission than their usual fare -- to steal a mysterious black box from a famous mathematician. While screwing around with it, they find it is a mathematical wonder capable of bypassing any US encryption system. Great geek movie, and definitely underrated in this review. =-)
.....http://exchange.info.apple.com/exchange/
I had one of those power supplies, but it only got warm when my laptop was charging. As a matter of fact, I believe my new one gets hotter imo.... =-P
Well of course Ellison would shamelessly promote Oracle to create a National ID. If he doesn't make his money off selling the database software itself (which he claims he won't), he'll make it off consulting fees or upgrades.
hmmm....assuming that since binary data and encrypted data theoretically should all look the same, the government would assumedly be forced to scan all binary data streaming across the 'net. No easy task. Could it be possible to perform a mass DOS on the system by registering tons of encryption systems with backdoors? Each additional encryption method would increase runtime pretty significantly. Anyone feel like another encryption challenge? Perhaps this time, to implement the backdoor that takes the longest time to calculate?
> make their scale-model fusion generator produce energy significantly in excess of what they're putting in
Umm....according to the article, fusion reactors haven't really produced large quantities of power. The linked article states, "The experimental tokamaks that exist around the world, such as the Joint European Torus (JET) reactor at Culham near Oxford, have to date not progressed far beyond the break-even point."
But, at least they're finally producing energy now. =-)
Because dselect often has problems (See here -- that from trying to install vim-gtk). A good alternative is console-apt.
An interesting variant on this might be to actually study the number of hours actually spent coding Linux. Then you could theoretically figure out how much more productive volunteered man hours are than paid man hours (or vice-versa). Has anyone out there seen something like this?
From what I hear, there has been a recent trend towards universities trying to spin off businesses based on patents they themeselves hold. I have myself been a part of such a patent and was a part of a development team for soon to be spinoff that had problems getting off the ground an thus was killed. Has anyone else heard of this phenomenon?
Bloat hell is bad, granted. But it's not as bad as it used to be. Not that I'm advocating the disuse of shared code, but with 60GB 7400RPM hdds at $150 or so, we can afford to have a little bloat.
(then again, maybe that's what M$ said....;-) )
It appears that even the NSA isn't invulnerable from the slashdot effect at 5:00 in the morning EDT. I wonder how bad it's gonna be at 10 or 11 AM.... =-)
This was a big problem with Lithium Ion batteries many years ago. Although Apple caugh a lot of the flak for having laptops that caught fire (as duely noted in previous posts), many laptop manufacturers at the time had similar problems. It's too bad that we are seeing this again.
....and using no moving parts no less. The only problem? Things need to be kept at differing wavelengths (such as network broadcasts), thus biting into bandwidth a little. Nevertheless, if you're churning packets out with 5ns delays, it probably won't matter anyway! :-D
This is the most ludicrous thing I've heard in a long time. It's bad enough that people are blaming violent tv shows and video games for Columbines. Now these people have so adequately convinced themselves of the "cause" that they are pursuing legal action against the companies they think are responsible! This is craziness. Everybody needs to just stop, take a step back from the madness and actually listen to the kids. Jumping to these hasty conclusions (especially ones with so little collaborating research) is going to get us in the end.