In case other people had as much trouble as I did finding the package:
www.cs.princeton.edu/~sapanb/vsys [Download Vsys]
http://git.planet-lab.org/?p=vsys.git;a=summary [git repository]...also, interestingly, Vsys is not written in C, but Ocaml, which is a solid type-safe programming language. This is reassuring from the security standpoint given that it is a recent package.
True. OTOH, systems research is as much about redoing as inventing. If canonical utility was the only criterion then Linus would not have reinvented Unix, Google would not have reinvented Firefox, (...). Read the "Related work" section of the linked paper - it talks about a ton of such works.
In the past, the gap between the big media and the common man was filled by the local media and small-time professional journalists. Now it is filled by citizen engagement through the social media. If an event is worthy of mass recognition then people will now tweet and blog about it enough for it to get on the radar of the national media.
Unless you count the bits, rather than the bytes. That gets you all the way to Alpha Centauri *and* three planetary blocks further down the starway to the nice, homely pizzeria at the intersection...
Besides advocating a fairly narrow theory on how to live healthily, this lecture by John Mcdougall talks about the questionable (non-positive) benefits of medication for chronic problems. It was an eye-opener for me, as someone who used to blindly follow his doctor's guidance for all health-related issues.
https://ssl.sonic.net/mcdsite/free/DLV04-V01.zip
Warning: It's about 80 minutes long - so probably better saved for a rainy day.
It's not a good thing to be fired, unless you get fired with your whole team and have enough impetus to subsist independently. Even more so if your parent company is one that doesn't care about tech or people.
Miguel and the rest of the Mono guys are great. I hope they will have a bright future outside of Novel/Attachmate. I am happy to foot my $$$ to pay for MonoTouch.
It makes more sense if you weigh the substantial tuition fees against what you get out of a university like MIT in terms of knowledge and the capacity to be successful. The people you speak of, Bose being an example, think the balance tilts towards the latter and try to even it out by giving back to the system. I find it admirable.
More often than not, integrated design by a single vendor has shown to win in the short term, but has eventually lost out to component-oriented design by multiple vendors. At first I thought the App Store might threaten to prevent that from happening in the case of iOS. But Android now has one too and most serious iApp developers have or are in the process of porting their apps. I think the stage is getting set for Apple to cry copy-cat all over again 2 decades after Windows "copied" the Mac. It will be a very interesting watch...
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In case other people had as much trouble as I did finding the package: www.cs.princeton.edu/~sapanb/vsys [Download Vsys] http://git.planet-lab.org/?p=vsys.git;a=summary [git repository] ...also, interestingly, Vsys is not written in C, but Ocaml, which is a solid type-safe programming language. This is reassuring from the security standpoint given that it is a recent package.
True. OTOH, systems research is as much about redoing as inventing. If canonical utility was the only criterion then Linus would not have reinvented Unix, Google would not have reinvented Firefox, (...). Read the "Related work" section of the linked paper - it talks about a ton of such works.
Is how the title should spell (I wish...)
In the past, the gap between the big media and the common man was filled by the local media and small-time professional journalists. Now it is filled by citizen engagement through the social media. If an event is worthy of mass recognition then people will now tweet and blog about it enough for it to get on the radar of the national media.
Unless you count the bits, rather than the bytes. That gets you all the way to Alpha Centauri *and* three planetary blocks further down the starway to the nice, homely pizzeria at the intersection...
Besides advocating a fairly narrow theory on how to live healthily, this lecture by John Mcdougall talks about the questionable (non-positive) benefits of medication for chronic problems. It was an eye-opener for me, as someone who used to blindly follow his doctor's guidance for all health-related issues. https://ssl.sonic.net/mcdsite/free/DLV04-V01.zip Warning: It's about 80 minutes long - so probably better saved for a rainy day.
It's not a good thing to be fired, unless you get fired with your whole team and have enough impetus to subsist independently. Even more so if your parent company is one that doesn't care about tech or people. Miguel and the rest of the Mono guys are great. I hope they will have a bright future outside of Novel/Attachmate. I am happy to foot my $$$ to pay for MonoTouch.
It makes more sense if you weigh the substantial tuition fees against what you get out of a university like MIT in terms of knowledge and the capacity to be successful. The people you speak of, Bose being an example, think the balance tilts towards the latter and try to even it out by giving back to the system. I find it admirable.
More often than not, integrated design by a single vendor has shown to win in the short term, but has eventually lost out to component-oriented design by multiple vendors. At first I thought the App Store might threaten to prevent that from happening in the case of iOS. But Android now has one too and most serious iApp developers have or are in the process of porting their apps. I think the stage is getting set for Apple to cry copy-cat all over again 2 decades after Windows "copied" the Mac. It will be a very interesting watch...