Clearly you didn't try very hard. Obviously if you're straight out of college, there's not much, but it honestly seems every company is like this... All major corps always have senior positions available, all the time.
They really need to start making the bodies expel fluids from appropriate orifices, bugs start gathering on corpses that you've left to rot, bowels spill out from appropriate locations, but cut down on the over-the-top gore. I prefer realistic gore, not gore for gore's sake.
It's just a way for Microsoft to make users buy multiple copies of the same operating system.
Oops did you scratch your install disk? You mean the CD-Key that was for that disk won't work on my friend's OEM Windows 7 install disk? Shit.
We should be paying for a license, not keys that are tied to physical media.
Why can't they just make a small installer program that you can download, burn to CD, and use that for the initial boot process. After that you need to have internet access to download the rest of the content - at that point they can verify the key, and even do forced registration if they want. I'd much rather have something like that - allowing me to make use of software that I legitimately own - than to go through countless obstacles when your original install media gets damaged. Shit - I would almost be okay if they digitally sign every system file on my computer with that key during the download process. Then if some external program tampers with my system files, there will be an improved method to identify the modification.
Oh this is a pipe dream - because they just want to sucker as many sales out of users as possible.
That's actually a pretty good idea - short of the project/experiments and democratic voting process.
It should be a museum - not a research lab. Well - maybe a small one in the back.:-) You'd need trinkets to sell to keep the facility operating, so might as well dedicate part of it to just developing those. heh a mini desktop Tesla coil or something equally useless but cool to have.
Like, what would you seriously do in a residential neighborhood using century old equipment?
Not really. The absurd requires of focusing the beam to useful power density would deter it's use as a weapon.
However - the military application would be to have power beamed down to bases, and various military equipment. The logistics of fuel alone for the military is a huge undertaking. Being able to supply power to a base without diesel generators and dependency on the local grid would be a huge benefit.
The beam direction would be electronically controlled. There would most likely be an uplink transmitter on the ground that relays misalignment information back to the orbital station. The latency between the ground and geostationary orbit would be the longest delay for the beam to go out of control and hit anything. Even if this occurs, the power density of the beam will likely be low enough to not cause any harm aside from warming things up a bit.
My problems with this whole idea are:
One giant satellite - it's just asking for a disaster to occur. The "Eggs in one basket" problem.
Minimizing the beam divergence - microwave frequency radiation spreads like crazy from just about any aperture when you're in the centimeter band. It's just the nature of that wavelength. Phased-array systems usually demonstrate significant beam divergence and are mostly useful for their non-mechanical beam direction. Sure, maybe playing the spatial frequency/Fourier transforms game might help suppress some of the unwanted divergence - but it will still have significant divergence.
The environmental impact of numerous rocket launches to develop this type of infrastructure. An anonymous poster made a comment before on this - stating that the impact report made around the 1980s had magically disappeared.
Atmospheric attenuation - sure - the atmosphere is largely transparent to the microwave bands - but even if we have 1% atmospheric absorption - when you're beaming in the 200,000,000 Watts - 2,000,000 Watts will probably be heating our atmosphere - and it won't just be lost in the upper parts like sunlight is lost in large quantities - it will be absorbed by the surrounding environment at the ground level, as the atmosphere gets heavier and has increased attenuation.
There's been talk about using Free-Electron Lasers to create an IR beam around 1 um. Apparently there's good conversion efficiencies for that type of laser at that wavelength - but wavelengths around Nd:YAG lasers are typically not the safest thing to be dealing with.
I'm an optics guy though with some RF experience, I'm definitely not some microwave engineer with 30 years experience, maybe someone who is can correct me.
Not to mention the creation of an alien enemy. Obviously - OBVIOUSLY - the IP addresses come from Russia and China - and in no way could a proxy be used from those countries - by an American. No way that could ever happen.
Obviously the spies are Russian or Chinese, because Americans would have no reason to hack into their own government's systems.
That's about right, even though I think there's been some advancements in the flash lamp efficiencies, but you capture the essence of the problem quite accurately.
Inertial Confinement Fusion has a long ways to go.
"I'm afraid you have reached beyond the red line of the BS meter. OO.o is just fine for home users that are only writing letters and occasionally making a little speadsheet. But for business? I'm sorry but Calc is no way in hell comparable to Excel, and there are simply way too damned many businesses that live and breathe in Excel for this to be even a remotely viable solution. I've tried giving OO.o to SMBs for evaluation. Most have positive reviews UNTIL they get to Calc. If he wanted to suggest that businesses just take the hit(and probably a huge cost in rewriting a shitload of spreadsheets) that is one thing, but saying OO.o is "superior software in every respect" to anyone who has used Excel is simply spreading the BS a little thick."
I make complicated spreadsheets, with lots of functions, cross linked between sheets, with very large data sets, and it works no worse than Excel. The only downside, is the lack of PivotCharts - they have a PivotTable equivalent, but no PivotCharts. Does this really matter to me? Nope - it's just a feature I really don't use, and can work around anyway.
I would say that 99% of business users would have their needs met with OO.org. If they don't use Excel macros (which have always worked for me in OO.org, but I can see it being a problem), PivotCharts or MS Access, I don't understand why it wouldn't suite their needs. Especially when making the switch from Excel 03 to 07.
If Sun tossed a few more developers into the project, I'd probably pay the same price as MS Office for a copy.
The greatest value behind OO.org is the fact it's free, I can download it from the Internet when I need it, and if I'm on a computer with no office suite, I'll have one by the time it finishes downloading. I make use of GoogleDocs in some cases, but it just lacks features, plain and simple.
I hate the name Cyber Security. It sounds very cliche - it should be Communications Security Command - because 'cyber' implies just the Internet - while Communications implies the whole bag of goods.
Then again - it should just be a section of the NSA. You've got the largest of employer of mathematicians in the world - with some really large computer systems. It only makes sense for them to be doing this.
I can understand the USAF wanting their own command for this - if they feel other departments are not responding to their needs adequately, they should implement their own teams. They are responsible for their own billions of dollars worth of hardware. They have their budgets, they should have the freedom to operate as it suites their needs without stepping on too many toes. However, I do see people at the NSA hacking the new group almost hourly just to prove their l33t sk1llz.:-)
I believe they should declare that Pi equals 3, to help not having to remember all those extra digits. Come on - dropping the.14159265... part would be a benefit to every architect, engineer and scientist in the state.
Just type in H0H0H0.... it seems to accept it. Apparently this is the postal code for Santa Claus - so when kids mail letters, the post office knows what to do with them.
The more legislative bodies attempt to censor the Internet, create rules, blockades, invade privacy, the more likely an alternate technological solution to this will present itself.
Any game that offers online play, and interests me, will likely get purchased. I don't want to deal with pirated copies in those cases.
I bet that if we examine the piracy rates of particular titles, the ones which feature good online play will have lower rates, or at least are likely to generate post-piracy sales.
Slashdot Mirror
... we should become cyber Bolsheviks.
Hah - with Slashdot being the popular front, and our leader - the great Commander Taco.
Ummm - They're absolutely hiring in Sunnyvale...
"Software Development Internship" 2/19/2009
"Build & Release Engineer" 5/09/2009
"Kernel Team Manager" 4/20/2009
"RF Software Engineer" 4/22/2009
"Senior Engineer - Multimedia Software" 4/28/2009
" Senior Kernel Engineer" 5/08/2009 and 5/19/2009
"Sr. Engineer - SW Dev" X3
"Sr. CDMA Driver Engineer"
"Sr Software Applications Engineer"
"Software Engineer"
"Sr. IS Engineer â" IT Web Applications"
"Sr. Software Engineer - Drivers"
Clearly you didn't try very hard. Obviously if you're straight out of college, there's not much, but it honestly seems every company is like this ... All major corps always have senior positions available, all the time.
They really need to start making the bodies expel fluids from appropriate orifices, bugs start gathering on corpses that you've left to rot, bowels spill out from appropriate locations, but cut down on the over-the-top gore. I prefer realistic gore, not gore for gore's sake.
Hey - thanks for the link to a nice website. :-)
It's just a way for Microsoft to make users buy multiple copies of the same operating system.
Oops did you scratch your install disk? You mean the CD-Key that was for that disk won't work on my friend's OEM Windows 7 install disk? Shit.
We should be paying for a license, not keys that are tied to physical media.
Why can't they just make a small installer program that you can download, burn to CD, and use that for the initial boot process. After that you need to have internet access to download the rest of the content - at that point they can verify the key, and even do forced registration if they want. I'd much rather have something like that - allowing me to make use of software that I legitimately own - than to go through countless obstacles when your original install media gets damaged. Shit - I would almost be okay if they digitally sign every system file on my computer with that key during the download process. Then if some external program tampers with my system files, there will be an improved method to identify the modification.
Oh this is a pipe dream - because they just want to sucker as many sales out of users as possible.
That's actually a pretty good idea - short of the project/experiments and democratic voting process.
It should be a museum - not a research lab. Well - maybe a small one in the back. :-) You'd need trinkets to sell to keep the facility operating, so might as well dedicate part of it to just developing those. heh a mini desktop Tesla coil or something equally useless but cool to have.
Like, what would you seriously do in a residential neighborhood using century old equipment?
I honestly feel that if my next computer doesn't have AMD hardware in it, everyone's favorite CPU underdog will go under.
Reading in a previous post, they haven't been paying out dividends since April '95, it just can't be good for business.
And how do you justify them looting food from international aid agencies?
It needs to look like that pyramid thing / eye of God on your money. Heh and the landing pad needs to look like the lower portion of the pyramid.
And make a good whirring sound.
gah - I should actually read my post before I click submit.
"The absurd requirements of..."
Not really. The absurd requires of focusing the beam to useful power density would deter it's use as a weapon.
However - the military application would be to have power beamed down to bases, and various military equipment. The logistics of fuel alone for the military is a huge undertaking. Being able to supply power to a base without diesel generators and dependency on the local grid would be a huge benefit.
That's what they're drooling over.
The beam direction would be electronically controlled. There would most likely be an uplink transmitter on the ground that relays misalignment information back to the orbital station. The latency between the ground and geostationary orbit would be the longest delay for the beam to go out of control and hit anything. Even if this occurs, the power density of the beam will likely be low enough to not cause any harm aside from warming things up a bit.
My problems with this whole idea are:
One giant satellite - it's just asking for a disaster to occur. The "Eggs in one basket" problem.
Minimizing the beam divergence - microwave frequency radiation spreads like crazy from just about any aperture when you're in the centimeter band. It's just the nature of that wavelength. Phased-array systems usually demonstrate significant beam divergence and are mostly useful for their non-mechanical beam direction. Sure, maybe playing the spatial frequency/Fourier transforms game might help suppress some of the unwanted divergence - but it will still have significant divergence.
The environmental impact of numerous rocket launches to develop this type of infrastructure. An anonymous poster made a comment before on this - stating that the impact report made around the 1980s had magically disappeared.
Atmospheric attenuation - sure - the atmosphere is largely transparent to the microwave bands - but even if we have 1% atmospheric absorption - when you're beaming in the 200,000,000 Watts - 2,000,000 Watts will probably be heating our atmosphere - and it won't just be lost in the upper parts like sunlight is lost in large quantities - it will be absorbed by the surrounding environment at the ground level, as the atmosphere gets heavier and has increased attenuation.
There's been talk about using Free-Electron Lasers to create an IR beam around 1 um. Apparently there's good conversion efficiencies for that type of laser at that wavelength - but wavelengths around Nd:YAG lasers are typically not the safest thing to be dealing with.
I'm an optics guy though with some RF experience, I'm definitely not some microwave engineer with 30 years experience, maybe someone who is can correct me.
Not to mention the creation of an alien enemy. Obviously - OBVIOUSLY - the IP addresses come from Russia and China - and in no way could a proxy be used from those countries - by an American. No way that could ever happen.
Obviously the spies are Russian or Chinese, because Americans would have no reason to hack into their own government's systems.
Tell them to get off of your grass.
That's about right, even though I think there's been some advancements in the flash lamp efficiencies, but you capture the essence of the problem quite accurately.
Inertial Confinement Fusion has a long ways to go.
"I'm afraid you have reached beyond the red line of the BS meter. OO.o is just fine for home users that are only writing letters and occasionally making a little speadsheet. But for business? I'm sorry but Calc is no way in hell comparable to Excel, and there are simply way too damned many businesses that live and breathe in Excel for this to be even a remotely viable solution. I've tried giving OO.o to SMBs for evaluation. Most have positive reviews UNTIL they get to Calc. If he wanted to suggest that businesses just take the hit(and probably a huge cost in rewriting a shitload of spreadsheets) that is one thing, but saying OO.o is "superior software in every respect" to anyone who has used Excel is simply spreading the BS a little thick."
I make complicated spreadsheets, with lots of functions, cross linked between sheets, with very large data sets, and it works no worse than Excel. The only downside, is the lack of PivotCharts - they have a PivotTable equivalent, but no PivotCharts. Does this really matter to me? Nope - it's just a feature I really don't use, and can work around anyway.
I would say that 99% of business users would have their needs met with OO.org. If they don't use Excel macros (which have always worked for me in OO.org, but I can see it being a problem), PivotCharts or MS Access, I don't understand why it wouldn't suite their needs. Especially when making the switch from Excel 03 to 07.
If Sun tossed a few more developers into the project, I'd probably pay the same price as MS Office for a copy.
The greatest value behind OO.org is the fact it's free, I can download it from the Internet when I need it, and if I'm on a computer with no office suite, I'll have one by the time it finishes downloading. I make use of GoogleDocs in some cases, but it just lacks features, plain and simple.
Talk about calling out the NSA for a hacking show down.
"Here - weighing in with /. UID 970058 is our underdog - Unity100. Tonight he will be taking on the current heavyweight hacking champion - the NSA."
Mr.T - sitting in the crowd, automatically comments with "I pity the foo."
I hate the name Cyber Security. It sounds very cliche - it should be Communications Security Command - because 'cyber' implies just the Internet - while Communications implies the whole bag of goods.
Then again - it should just be a section of the NSA. You've got the largest of employer of mathematicians in the world - with some really large computer systems. It only makes sense for them to be doing this.
I can understand the USAF wanting their own command for this - if they feel other departments are not responding to their needs adequately, they should implement their own teams. They are responsible for their own billions of dollars worth of hardware. They have their budgets, they should have the freedom to operate as it suites their needs without stepping on too many toes. However, I do see people at the NSA hacking the new group almost hourly just to prove their l33t sk1llz. :-)
I believe they should declare that Pi equals 3, to help not having to remember all those extra digits. Come on - dropping the .14159265... part would be a benefit to every architect, engineer and scientist in the state.
Once they start having to disconnect 50% of their client base for 3 copyright infringements, they'll change their mind rather quickly.
Just type in H0H0H0 .... it seems to accept it. Apparently this is the postal code for Santa Claus - so when kids mail letters, the post office knows what to do with them.
I have no idea why I know this.
--Nick.
YAARRRR!!!!
The more legislative bodies attempt to censor the Internet, create rules, blockades, invade privacy, the more likely an alternate technological solution to this will present itself.
Any game that offers online play, and interests me, will likely get purchased. I don't want to deal with pirated copies in those cases.
I bet that if we examine the piracy rates of particular titles, the ones which feature good online play will have lower rates, or at least are likely to generate post-piracy sales.
This would make a great Southpark episode.