Because you might want to listen to your music -- or watch your favorite movies -- even when you're in locations/situations where you can't easily/cheaply stream your data. Such as on an airplane, or deep inside a building where there's no reception.
This is not to say that the data wouldn't live in the cloud. Think of your portable device as simply containing a cache, which is loaded on demand. The bigger the cache, the better.
You sound a great deal like me, and -- speaking from personal experience -- what you want is possible.:-) I'd look within NASA, definitely.
And ignore the bitter folks here who are whining about how they're looked down upon by the PhDs. That's certainly not a universal experience -- I have coded for PhDs at a couple of research institutions and always got along well with them. Just remember that you have to give respect to get respect, especially if you're the new kid in the lab.
You'd probably want/need the edge of a Masters in the research-related field, more than a Masters in Comp Sci. People will value you more if you have solid footing in both the programming domain and the problem domain.
Final bit of advice: don't hide your passion about wanting to work for the betterment of humanity. I have been upfront about that in my interviews, and it always resonates with the right people. Many of those PhDs in the sciences have similar passions.
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk.] Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Well said. But if the various numbers that make up the SM are axiomatic, it's interesting to consider what the universe might look like if some (or all) of those axioms were changed. Sort of like considering what Euclidean geometry would look like if the parallel postulate were not true, and consequently coming up with spherical and hyperbolic geometry.
After all, there's nothing to say that "other" Universes have to work the same way as ours -- even the mechanics of universe formation might be different.
"Have you ever been sitting there, quietly computing something and thinking to yourself, 'If only this process were somehow billions of times slower, less reliable, and involved lots of physical labor?'"
Yes. And then I switch to a Windows box. Mission accomplished.
Like all good science-fiction, Star Trek -- even in its original 1960s incarnation -- confronted topics of the day like racism (the black/white people) or class-ism/able-ism (the psychokinetic pseudo-Greek civilization). It explored the human condition. Yes, there was action, but it was just a component of good storytelling. Watch a season of ST:DS9 and you'll see that most of it is about the characters and how they relate to the circumstances around them. It's not just about firing phasers at bad guys. Sometimes the good guys are shown to be not so good after all, and ditto for the bad guys.
Interesting point; I hadn't considered the nuances of price setting.:-)
Seems to me, though, that if certain manufacturers are paying protection money, and others aren't, then the ones who aren't are more free to make their sale prices more competitive, and gain market share that way. You're right; they might not choose to do so. But if I were making a popular brand of cellphone and I knew that most of my competitors had additional overhead that I didn't, I'd be sore tempted to compete with them on price to grab a few of their customers. So we'd all be overcharging the consumer, but I'd be overcharging less.:-)
...there is at least one primary manufacturer who won't play ball with Microsoft. From the article:
One manufacturer still holding out on Microsoft's Android licensing agreements is Motorola Mobility, which is in ongoing patent litigation with Microsoft — drawing Google, Motorola Mobility's owner and driving force behind Android, into the fray.
If you agree with Microsoft's position, and believe that they're owed licensing fees, fine: just be aware that the cost of the licensing fees is being passed on to the consumer.
If you don't agree with Microsoft's position, one thing you can do is to not purchase from any company participating in such agreements. Even better: purchase from a company that isn't, and send a letter to a company that is, so they understand that they're cutting off their own air supply.
If you want to make something go away, make it unprofitable for the parties involved.
McDirmid notes that there are limitations to his prototype. For example, the approach used by LPX won't work for "interactive programs whose inputs consist of time-ordered events and whose outputs can vary over time
You mean, such as programs which offer a user interface, and which both write to and read from some kind of persistence layer or document storage on the backend?
Well, at least there can't be too many of those....
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Because you might want to listen to your music -- or watch your favorite movies -- even when you're in locations/situations where you can't easily/cheaply stream your data. Such as on an airplane, or deep inside a building where there's no reception.
This is not to say that the data wouldn't live in the cloud. Think of your portable device as simply containing a cache, which is loaded on demand. The bigger the cache, the better.
When I saw the "travelling sideways" thing I was hoping for a giant crab-shaped mecha.
You sound a great deal like me, and -- speaking from personal experience -- what you want is possible. :-) I'd look within NASA, definitely.
And ignore the bitter folks here who are whining about how they're looked down upon by the PhDs. That's certainly not a universal experience -- I have coded for PhDs at a couple of research institutions and always got along well with them. Just remember that you have to give respect to get respect, especially if you're the new kid in the lab.
You'd probably want/need the edge of a Masters in the research-related field, more than a Masters in Comp Sci. People will value you more if you have solid footing in both the programming domain and the problem domain.
Final bit of advice: don't hide your passion about wanting to work for the betterment of humanity. I have been upfront about that in my interviews, and it always resonates with the right people. Many of those PhDs in the sciences have similar passions.
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes, covering him and Leela in yolk.] Although, in reality, it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!
Vampires and zombies are already at room temperature; this is USELESS for them! What about THEIR flashlight needs?
...who else is hungry for cold cuts?
Anyone? Anyone?
Just me, then.
Well said. But if the various numbers that make up the SM are axiomatic, it's interesting to consider what the universe might look like if some (or all) of those axioms were changed. Sort of like considering what Euclidean geometry would look like if the parallel postulate were not true, and consequently coming up with spherical and hyperbolic geometry.
After all, there's nothing to say that "other" Universes have to work the same way as ours -- even the mechanics of universe formation might be different.
Oh, relax. I was going for the +1 Funny, and Windows is an easy punchline on Slashdot. :-)
"Have you ever been sitting there, quietly computing something and thinking to yourself, 'If only this process were somehow billions of times slower, less reliable, and involved lots of physical labor?'"
Yes. And then I switch to a Windows box. Mission accomplished.
Mine, AC.
Like all good science-fiction, Star Trek -- even in its original 1960s incarnation -- confronted topics of the day like racism (the black/white people) or class-ism/able-ism (the psychokinetic pseudo-Greek civilization). It explored the human condition. Yes, there was action, but it was just a component of good storytelling. Watch a season of ST:DS9 and you'll see that most of it is about the characters and how they relate to the circumstances around them. It's not just about firing phasers at bad guys. Sometimes the good guys are shown to be not so good after all, and ditto for the bad guys.
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When I was young we had to telnet to port 80 and format the HTML stream in our heads.
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caffeine == life
After reading the Oracle announcement through three times, I actually checked my calendar to see if April 1st had somehow come around again.
Which is a distinct possibility if Oracle takes over the Gregorian Calendar next.
"I am altering the OS, pray I don't alter it any further."
— Darth Ballmer.
(claps)
Bravo, sir/madam, bravo.
Interesting point; I hadn't considered the nuances of price setting. :-)
Seems to me, though, that if certain manufacturers are paying protection money, and others aren't, then the ones who aren't are more free to make their sale prices more competitive, and gain market share that way. You're right; they might not choose to do so. But if I were making a popular brand of cellphone and I knew that most of my competitors had additional overhead that I didn't, I'd be sore tempted to compete with them on price to grab a few of their customers. So we'd all be overcharging the consumer, but I'd be overcharging less. :-)
...there is at least one primary manufacturer who won't play ball with Microsoft. From the article:
If you agree with Microsoft's position, and believe that they're owed licensing fees, fine: just be aware that the cost of the licensing fees is being passed on to the consumer.
If you don't agree with Microsoft's position, one thing you can do is to not purchase from any company participating in such agreements. Even better: purchase from a company that isn't, and send a letter to a company that is, so they understand that they're cutting off their own air supply.
If you want to make something go away, make it unprofitable for the parties involved.
McDirmid notes that there are limitations to his prototype. For example, the approach used by LPX won't work for "interactive programs whose inputs consist of time-ordered events and whose outputs can vary over time
You mean, such as programs which offer a user interface, and which both write to and read from some kind of persistence layer or document storage on the backend?
Well, at least there can't be too many of those....
"That belongs in a museum!"
Train/Recruit American Infotech Novices -- Underutilized & Starving for work.
Itty bitty spy cams, coming to a bodily organ near^H^H^H^H inside you,
Then don't get those flight attendants angry. You wouldn't like them when they're angry.
"Corporations are people, my friend." -- Mitt Romney, August 2011.
....of Zippy crammed in my cochlea and shouting non-sequiturs at my eardrum.
Remember when version numbers were in the format a.b.c, and actually meant something? God, I miss those days....