...you should look at increasing your marketability. Whenever you decide to join the industry, whatever you do for the first two years or so will decide the career you settle into for the most part.
So think VERY hard. What would you really want to do every day? It comes down to job satisfaction. If you can get that, then being good at your job comes naturally and so does increasing your marketability, because your passion for what you do will show - you won't need to fake it.
So I turn it back to you - what career do you want? Pick one that you're perfectly fine doing for the rest of your life - sure, you'll rise, but the field, the area of application and the concepts used probably won't change that much.
If you love messing with Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, stuff like that, I'd say somewhere around an MBA/Marketing will suit you.
If you love analysis, statistics, modeling, maybe something along the lines of DSP/Mathematics...
I hope you get what I'm trying to say. Ten years into your career, you should be able to say you chose it because you love doing your job and not because of a comment on Slashdot that was rated 5.
Kinda gives you an idea of how huge a 64 bit address space is. I mean, 116GB is still 24 bits smaller - by about 16 million times (10 bits = 1K, 24=10+10+4) - than the amount of data 64 bits can address.
Could this be an indication of the data volumes we will be dealing with in the future when 32 bit computing on the deskop is obsolete?
He was still in his trailer. That explosion was caused by some idiot trying to fly a Rebel battle cruiser for the first time. It left George Lucas with scorch marks on his ass.
MacDonald's & Burger King make them fat... Subway tries to make them thin again but in vain... Your clothing companies dictate that your kids need to starve to fit in to their jeans... ABC, Fox NEWS & NBC make sure they have no knoweledge of the outside world at all... The RIAA & MPAA makes sure it's not the artist's talent that matters, but mass-produced "flavor of the month" rubbish... M$ is trying to "dumb" down the computer population... Everyone wants to make money off "everyone else"...
but what everyone does not get is... YOU ARE THE "EVERYONE ELSE" TO THE OTHER PERSON!!!/rant off/
Who wants to bet we'll see the new IE support "Microsoft recommended extensions" that will seem great initially, but that will later on be used to invade your desktop?
So let me get this straight. I can create a surround CD out of format-less files. The only real format-less file I can think of is maybe an analog file, but that's prone to noise and how would you store it on digital storage media? So, I guess we're talking about a digital file without any kind of header - which means we're talking about RAW PCM samples. So here's the problem then : even to read RAW PCM samples, you need to know a few things : sampling rate, bits per sample, number of channels and endianness. So where will we get that information from? The label of the storage media? Some kind of watermark? Gess what - there already is a "format" that will give you this information with a minimum of fuss and that's the WAV format. So, we're back to where we started. Let's take the next argument - making surround CDs out of the data on file. To date, as of my knowledge, the closest you can get to that is by a technique called virual miking, which means you need the original RAW PCM samples AND complete acoustic information about the studio it was recorded in. Only then can you calculate what microphones placed in other points of room would have heard. Otherwise, for every new channel, you would need a separate PCM stream of data. So how do we represent all this info? How about a format?
So, in other words, this really doesn't seem very technically sound. Formats are around for a reason - they make it easy to represent information.
The point is, it is incentive enough NOT to mess with N.Korea. The US thinks Kim Jong Il is one step short of a psycho. Kim Jong Il knows it too and he is using this as a "deterrent". It's simple politics really. Basically, Kim Jong Il is saying "If you try anything with N.Korea, don't blame us if we hit back with nukes". Whether it's true or not is immaterial. the point is, the risk in calling the bluff is too great.
Well, from what I've read so far, this is what I understand:
Everyday applications require lots of operations on small sets of data. Multi-media apps require simple operations on large sets of data.
So, theoretically, couldn't each unit be setup to provide a subset of those "many operations" and then be used on a small data set?
Or, what about having a cell "co-processor" that takes care of stuff like anti-aliasing, drop shadows, and other graphics stuff that is common in everyday use? Would this eliminate the need for a graphics card? I mean, if we put a cell processor on the motherboard next to the CPU, we should be able to have a very capable video card like unit, without something like AGP choking it, right?
Maybe, but you can fit a LOT more on a simple pen drive or even an MMC card. So what you have now is the ability to carry around more using less space with more reliability. The floppy point is void. Software has gotten bigger, but so has storage media capacity. You can now carry around a 50MB live CD that's not much bigger than a business card - that's operating system, utilities and all.
I'll go out on a limb here and ask this. It may be a dumb question, so please pardon my ignorance if that is the case:
KDE already runs on Cygwin on Windows. KDE is based on Qt, Qt now has been released GPL for Windows, so does that mean that I might be able to run KDE or any of it's apps, without Cygwin, on Windows?
More importantly though, what is the state of KOffice? Openoffice is having moderate success at best in penetrating MS Office's market share. I haven't used KOffice, but given the tight integration that KDE is famous for, might KOffice be able to provide that challenge?
Well, how do you know that what you found wasn't more hidden information? Double-layer steganography maybe? I mean, what better way to hide info than as a false positive?
Slashdot Mirror
...you should look at increasing your marketability. Whenever you decide to join the industry, whatever you do for the first two years or so will decide the career you settle into for the most part.
So think VERY hard. What would you really want to do every day? It comes down to job satisfaction. If you can get that, then being good at your job comes naturally and so does increasing your marketability, because your passion for what you do will show - you won't need to fake it.
So I turn it back to you - what career do you want? Pick one that you're perfectly fine doing for the rest of your life - sure, you'll rise, but the field, the area of application and the concepts used probably won't change that much.
If you love messing with Word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, stuff like that, I'd say somewhere around an MBA/Marketing will suit you.
If you love analysis, statistics, modeling, maybe something along the lines of DSP/Mathematics...
I hope you get what I'm trying to say. Ten years into your career, you should be able to say you chose it because you love doing your job and not because of a comment on Slashdot that was rated 5.
same story...two posts...lots of interference caused :)
Google knows all.
:)
err...actually, google knows all who know all
have resorted to nowadays? I'm sure you had stories MUCH more worthy of acceptance, instead you choose to publish rubbish like this.
Don't mean to sound like a troll, but are you sure you don't choose stories based on random numbers and a team of trained hansters?
Kinda gives you an idea of how huge a 64 bit address space is. I mean, 116GB is still 24 bits smaller - by about 16 million times (10 bits = 1K, 24=10+10+4) - than the amount of data 64 bits can address.
Could this be an indication of the data volumes we will be dealing with in the future when 32 bit computing on the deskop is obsolete?
Since when did you join the Deadly Slashdot Assassination Squad?
He was still in his trailer. That explosion was caused by some idiot trying to fly a Rebel battle cruiser for the first time. It left George Lucas with scorch marks on his ass.
OK...I need to rant. Karma be damned.
/rant off/
MacDonald's & Burger King make them fat...
Subway tries to make them thin again but in vain...
Your clothing companies dictate that your kids need to starve to fit in to their jeans...
ABC, Fox NEWS & NBC make sure they have no knoweledge of the outside world at all...
The RIAA & MPAA makes sure it's not the artist's talent that matters, but mass-produced "flavor of the month" rubbish...
M$ is trying to "dumb" down the computer population...
Everyone wants to make money off "everyone else"...
but what everyone does not get is...
YOU ARE THE "EVERYONE ELSE" TO THE OTHER PERSON!!!
It's pretty pathetic actually.
Yep and there are 5 Indians in there.
*Hits Ctrl-C*
Who wants to bet we'll see the new IE support "Microsoft recommended extensions" that will seem great initially, but that will later on be used to invade your desktop?
I think a more valid question would be : How fast can they be re-constructed AFTER a tsunami?
So let me get this straight. I can create a surround CD out of format-less files. The only real format-less file I can think of is maybe an analog file, but that's prone to noise and how would you store it on digital storage media?
So, I guess we're talking about a digital file without any kind of header - which means we're talking about RAW PCM samples. So here's the problem then : even to read RAW PCM samples, you need to know a few things : sampling rate, bits per sample, number of channels and endianness. So where will we get that information from? The label of the storage media? Some kind of watermark? Gess what - there already is a "format" that will give you this information with a minimum of fuss and that's the WAV format. So, we're back to where we started.
Let's take the next argument - making surround CDs out of the data on file. To date, as of my knowledge, the closest you can get to that is by a technique called virual miking, which means you need the original RAW PCM samples AND complete acoustic information about the studio it was recorded in. Only then can you calculate what microphones placed in other points of room would have heard. Otherwise, for every new channel, you would need a separate PCM stream of data. So how do we represent all this info? How about a format?
So, in other words, this really doesn't seem very technically sound. Formats are around for a reason - they make it easy to represent information.
1111111111.....0 000000000000
1010101010101......
00000000000
slashdot!
When you reach the top, there's no where to go but down :)
Once just before SGI collapsed, once just before HP collapsed and once now. Dude, that's not often enough. Get a check up done, you prophetic fart :)
only it's not a faint smell...given the number of security holes, the faint smell of root is now a stench.
"The bigger they are, the harder they fall?" ?
The point is, it is incentive enough NOT to mess with N.Korea. The US thinks Kim Jong Il is one step short of a psycho. Kim Jong Il knows it too and he is using this as a "deterrent". It's simple politics really. Basically, Kim Jong Il is saying "If you try anything with N.Korea, don't blame us if we hit back with nukes". Whether it's true or not is immaterial. the point is, the risk in calling the bluff is too great.
So THAT's what they meant by excellent language skills for the programming position on monster.com
Well, from what I've read so far, this is what I understand :
Everyday applications require lots of operations on small sets of data. Multi-media apps require simple operations on large sets of data.
So, theoretically, couldn't each unit be setup to provide a subset of those "many operations" and then be used on a small data set?
Or, what about having a cell "co-processor" that takes care of stuff like anti-aliasing, drop shadows, and other graphics stuff that is common in everyday use? Would this eliminate the need for a graphics card? I mean, if we put a cell processor on the motherboard next to the CPU, we should be able to have a very capable video card like unit, without something like AGP choking it, right?
Maybe, but you can fit a LOT more on a simple pen drive or even an MMC card. So what you have now is the ability to carry around more using less space with more reliability. The floppy point is void. Software has gotten bigger, but so has storage media capacity. You can now carry around a 50MB live CD that's not much bigger than a business card - that's operating system, utilities and all.
I'll go out on a limb here and ask this. It may be a dumb question, so please pardon my ignorance if that is the case :
KDE already runs on Cygwin on Windows. KDE is based on Qt, Qt now has been released GPL for Windows, so does that mean that I might be able to run KDE or any of it's apps, without Cygwin, on Windows?
More importantly though, what is the state of KOffice? Openoffice is having moderate success at best in penetrating MS Office's market share. I haven't used KOffice, but given the tight integration that KDE is famous for, might KOffice be able to provide that challenge?
Well, how do you know that what you found wasn't more hidden information? Double-layer steganography maybe? I mean, what better way to hide info than as a false positive?
Evidence of nuclear tests in space :c hapt5.html
m akov_box.html
s /ast19sep97_2.htm
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/nmd/briefbook02/
http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2004_spring/pri
http://spacescience.spaceref.com/newhome/headline
http://www.munuc.org/pdfs/DISEC_A.pdf