"In 2006, the American Physical Society established a program that provides free on-line access to its journals for non-profit institutions located in eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa...."
I am in rural America, an American, I can't get easy access to the "American Physical Society" or similar journals. No job, no longer college access, and local library are incompetent and callous.
I don't want an institution to manage access for me.
Microsoft/Intel cannot lose the Windows mindshare, marketshare, niche market, quarterly analysis, exposure, or allow the embarrasment of missing a potentially revolutionary nascent technology or low-budget competition.
How much is the exposure worth? Brand imprint? Visual or Process (how to do things) imprint? Said to be lots.
...but allow you to agree to someone else's password, oh, say RIAA,MPAA, etc.
This can keep YOU from accessing the data on the hard drive, you know, the data you gave away your rights for when you clicked that license or bought that TIVO, etc.
Simply couple that technology with Trusted Computing and you no longer control the hardware you payed for.
I am sure this is obvious to those already in-the-know, but is meant as a Public Service.
Does it surprise anyone they are missing, neglected, with no funding for perpetually archiving the results?
If a tree falls in the wood, and there is no proof, was a sound made?
Do the presidential libraries suffer that fate?
That critical things that the US (or any) Government is actually responsible for is, once again, messed up?
They are like an unfocused, irresponsible child, except they have big guns, our credit card with unlimited limit, and the legal system to perpetuate it.
If I am out of line consider Katrina, War on Terror, Social Security, the scandals, Halliburton, energy prices, approach to global warming, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Absolutely the way I feel after 23 years! Every dolt, sleazebag, sociopath, and generally mean person ended up in the field. And that doesn't even describe the recruiters, head hunters, and HR people.
I also have avoided (re)entering the field as to not be taken for granted as well (just having gotten a M.Sc.), avoiding taking just any old position, because of the lame people I have met in the past.
As I am just finishing up a new home (someone else did the rough-in), I can echo your sentiments about being able to do a job, with your hands, and avoiding it all.
... and, if nothing more, privatization allows funding to come from different "pots", simply hiding the true cost in an accountants dream world, ultimately allowing future expenditure. Does anyone think the costs of running NASA, like any government administrative-heavy organization, will go DOWN?
I am not qualified to judge the review system itself, only having done research for my M.Sc. Thesis, but as a lifelong learner I have been severely penalized by lack of access to information since I live in a rural area. I was *fixated* when I began working for a large science company that had its own library!
I fully agree on the cost and availability issue. In the past my employer could not pay as I understood it (U.S. Gov.), and as a recent grad student I only had only slow access to my field's journal(s) - the ACM does not charge alot for students, but I have now graduated (and unemployed!): regardless, the download times on slow dialup is tiresome, and the local libraries as well as my state's library consortium do not have access since the ACM and IEEE apparently do not allow general access.
As in highway taxes, a different funding model must arise. But the incumbents will stop any attempt, I am sure, because they have money and own the process.
as someone who just got his M.Sc. (and some bio and medical informatics) and 23yrs. experience, mostly in Unix-type systems and admin for science, I would be interested in why such low interest as well. Unix admin is some of the most interesting CS/IT style work available.
However, being any kind of "Admin" puts you into the same "class" as a PC technician or support in the eyes of science or an organization. This means little respect, no opportunity for real growth in an organization, no champion for higher raises, prestige, and Admins do not participate in the Business, at least, no one really cares. They are a cost center, do not add to the bottom line. They are generally non-entities.
As someone who has reported directly to physicists, physical chemists, biochemists, they have a tendency to belittle or minimize the contribution to their "science" even when directly benefitting from obscure computer science issues and efforts. I call it arrogance, though there may be more fitting reasoning.
Don't be discouraged - provide a place where they can be recognized, and hire me when you do - In such environments, I have personally responded by winning organizational innovation awards, saving time and resources, pulling all-nighters to do an exceptional job for my customers, and generally doing a great job on very visible, technical, projects.
Some other posting claimed that he could not find someone who could reverse a string in c, could write a hash function, or knew big-O, all from memory. Well, I have done all that and more, but I'm not embarrassed to say that I need to look it up to do so, but I am sure I do not come across well because I don't have instant recall - I have to shift context and that takes time.
Agreed on the financial issue as well; I would love to scream out loud "What better budget management could you have than someone who has successfully budgeted their own life" - in fact, I find most managers are exactly the ones up to their eyeballs in debt! I live in Michigan, and here, the Republican ideals drive the auto industry suppliers, and they use the exact same tactics and hiring as they do to their factory rats. Limited or no training to build for future, temporary opportunities, bad vibes everywhere, and when the focus of the job changes, back to unemployment. They keep you coming to work based upon how much debt you are in, and it is their control. They don't like it if you are uncontrollable. And Michigan wonders why it has such a broken workforce and no lucrative opportunities (IIRC, second in the nation for IT jobs leaving, and second for the amount of people leaving the state in 2004).
Exaggerate is interesting. I am only now discovering, after talking with recruiters and truly stupid HR people, that they are truly deadened and need a lot of fluff to get past their apathy. Only after they read my resume, w/23 years experience and an M.Sc., they say, wow, you are a solid candidate (but no significant job offers yet). But I have to really work to get them to even look.
IT needs to force respect - no business can do without it, yet I feel that IT people are the most selfish in the world. They don't seem to watch out for each other, because they don't view it as Ben. Franklin said, to paraphrase, if we don't hang together, we'll surely hang alone...
Oh, and please tell me where to contact your recruiter...
haha
PS Sorry for the rude comment above - it is just that there IS NO jobs available for that which you speak - on my resume it says "Data Structures and Algorithms" from a world-class university - why do I not get a call?
I can do all those things, write trees and balance them, understand Big-O, little-O, and omega, and can build a hash table and/or a btree. Yet, there is no place to say all of that on a 1 page resume, companies don't pay for academics, and doing it from memory, without refreshment, is near impossible, at least for me.
It is idiots like you that keep us all in the dark.
As another poster alluded to, you are seeing the *effect* of years of drain of intellectualism and wealth from Kansas.
Add Michigan to that list: too many years of "good jobs" in the auto industry has left a whole state that now talks about supporting itself from tourism - despite the fact that it has well-known and regarded educational institutions.
When the left-coasters and big business concentrate wealth in their own "family" and geographically, draw away the local intellectuals, for generations, people in Kansas have their own determination of what is important to them.
Mouser and Digikey are not necessarily able to supply ANY part - many parts are unavailable from them. The large-scale integration of components, coupled with software/firmware, coupled with the IP laws preventing disclosure will make it virtually impossible. Only reverse engineering could work, but have made it illegal vis DMCA to disclose, and noone has forgotten DVD Jon's antics and will make sure it doesn't happen like that, if at all possible.
the idea that everything you have is better-off leased, some conveniently forget that when you stop being able to pay, you are done.
If everything you have is leased, just like health insurance, within 30 days of no payment you no longer are eligble.
And, assuming you will always be viable, with no ups or downs, is naive. Go ask your dad and mom.
You pay the leaseor's rate for maintenance and depreciation - its not free.
When you retire, can you afford monthly bills from cable, phone, iTunes, Netflix, now Microsoft? You will have enough hard times getting the drugs you need or paying the inflated tax rates and rent that the upcoming generation of youth will pay thoughtlessly.
"Youth is wasted on the young". (unknown, but so profound)
taking a counteroffer, after you have already shown to be disloyal, offers problems. Even if you stay, don't count on anything because they know you can be bought for a few percent, and it just buys them time to find your replacement or marginalize you. As well as telling the other company - they don't like to be gamed...
Keep the big business and government control *away*, and allow independent, ad-hoc generation of energy through whatever process is feasible. (local) governments like to provide you with "Services", like water even if a well will suffice, which hooks you permanently as their revenue stream. Companies do the same as it determines how much you *must* work for them so you can heat your home or go anywhere, kindof like the healthcare slavery all Americans are exposed to now: get sick, insurance ends at the end of the month, and you are bankrupted. Don't have insurance? Die anyway because the safety nets don't work.
I agree fully; we are our own worst enemy. As "architects" begin to architect IT, they have all the patterns, buzzwords, technologies, to make business and academics feel good about what they are accomplishing/spending/hiring. If, in fact, you were running software like you were launching a rocket to the moon, such NASA'esque scale and complexity for software may be helpful (but maybe not - see the report on the shuttle failure). But that, I suggest, is not where most endeavors lie.
It was a superb architecture - an advanced interrupt driven, custom active chipsets, multiple bus hardware that could be used by a its preemptive multitasking OS which could really be used. Very high quality compilers, among many other things available. Was linear addressing memory, multitasking and running with the large networked systems while others still trying to figure out how to fit things into memory, rebooting between applications, or to load multiple network stacks at the same time.
"Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems? "
Development, installation and running on multiple MS platforms was NEVER easy: how quick everyone forgets...
In Win 3.x installation was text files, then.INIs, then some.INIs and half a registry, then Win32s, Win32, then Win 9x and the registry, then NT, it's unique registry, then running 16 bit in 32 via thunk and later WoW, ad nauseum! Then, its C, then VB, then, Visual, then VB + VC++, whatever...
Never mind the network. Monolithic, NDIS, NDISII, II(?), Netbios/NETBEUI, then Bill Gates invented the Internet and IP, then broken IP stacks....
Then COM, COM+, ADO, then AD, then....
Then this.dll, then VxDs, then.NET,...
MS Easy to Develop and maintain for, and runs on all machines my Rear.
You mean it would be better to continue letting companies/pyschopaths/sociopaths/marketing steer my wants and needs, socialize me, and monopolize my communications (mostly one-way) vs. a bunch of hand-selected people and ideas I wish to congregate with?
I welcome the day my group (whatever group) of people create a mini-Utopia, at least for themselves, *ignoring* those who want to dominate and exploit.
Let the designer mini-society begin, and let the best win.
You know, like Men In Black, erase our very experience when we leave the park/watch the video/listen to the Lion King!
Then, we have no option but to pay through the node *every* time!
Do most people like the idea of technology, like cameras, as a brain/memory enhancement and archival device, and the likes of RIAA/MPAA want a pay-per-view world? Kinda like today's wage slaves?
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"In 2006, the American Physical Society established a program that provides free on-line access to its journals for non-profit institutions located in eligible countries in Sub-Saharan Africa...."
I am in rural America, an American, I can't get easy access to the "American Physical Society" or similar journals. No job, no longer college access, and local library are incompetent and callous.
I don't want an institution to manage access for me.
Anyone have links, pointers to access?
said better elsewhere...
Microsoft/Intel cannot lose the Windows mindshare, marketshare, niche market, quarterly analysis, exposure, or allow the embarrasment of missing a potentially revolutionary nascent technology or low-budget competition.
How much is the exposure worth? Brand imprint? Visual or Process (how to do things) imprint? Said to be lots.
They would do the project(s) at a loss.
...but allow you to agree to someone else's password, oh, say RIAA,MPAA, etc.
This can keep YOU from accessing the data on the hard drive, you know, the data you gave away your rights for when you clicked that license or bought that TIVO, etc.
Simply couple that technology with Trusted Computing and you no longer control the hardware you payed for.
I am sure this is obvious to those already in-the-know, but is meant as a Public Service.
or "My God, it's full of stars"...
Does it surprise anyone they are missing, neglected, with no funding for perpetually archiving the results?
If a tree falls in the wood, and there is no proof, was a sound made?
Do the presidential libraries suffer that fate?
That critical things that the US (or any) Government is actually responsible for is, once again, messed up?
They are like an unfocused, irresponsible child, except they have big guns, our credit card with unlimited limit, and the legal system to perpetuate it.
If I am out of line consider Katrina, War on Terror, Social Security, the scandals, Halliburton, energy prices, approach to global warming, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Dumbasses all around.
Absolutely the way I feel after 23 years! Every dolt, sleazebag, sociopath, and generally mean person ended up in the field. And that doesn't even describe the recruiters, head hunters, and HR people.
I also have avoided (re)entering the field as to not be taken for granted as well (just having gotten a M.Sc.), avoiding taking just any old position, because of the lame people I have met in the past.
As I am just finishing up a new home (someone else did the rough-in), I can echo your sentiments about being able to do a job, with your hands, and avoiding it all.
I am not qualified to judge the review system itself, only having done research for my M.Sc. Thesis, but as a lifelong learner I have been severely penalized by lack of access to information since I live in a rural area. I was *fixated* when I began working for a large science company that had its own library!
I fully agree on the cost and availability issue. In the past my employer could not pay as I understood it (U.S. Gov.), and as a recent grad student I only had only slow access to my field's journal(s) - the ACM does not charge alot for students, but I have now graduated (and unemployed!): regardless, the download times on slow dialup is tiresome, and the local libraries as well as my state's library consortium do not have access since the ACM and IEEE apparently do not allow general access.
As in highway taxes, a different funding model must arise. But the incumbents will stop any attempt, I am sure, because they have money and own the process.
Hello,
as someone who just got his M.Sc. (and some bio and medical informatics) and 23yrs. experience, mostly in Unix-type systems and admin for science, I would be interested in why such low interest as well. Unix admin is some of the most interesting CS/IT style work available.
However, being any kind of "Admin" puts you into the same "class" as a PC technician or support in the eyes of science or an organization. This means little respect, no opportunity for real growth in an organization, no champion for higher raises, prestige, and Admins do not participate in the Business, at least, no one really cares. They are a cost center, do not add to the bottom line. They are generally non-entities.
As someone who has reported directly to physicists, physical chemists, biochemists, they have a tendency to belittle or minimize the contribution to their "science" even when directly benefitting from obscure computer science issues and efforts. I call it arrogance, though there may be more fitting reasoning.
Don't be discouraged - provide a place where they can be recognized, and hire me when you do - In such environments, I have personally responded by winning organizational innovation awards, saving time and resources, pulling all-nighters to do an exceptional job for my customers, and generally doing a great job on very visible, technical, projects.
It is good to be wanted.
Exact, on all counts.
Some other posting claimed that he could not find someone who could reverse a string in c, could write a hash function, or knew big-O, all from memory. Well, I have done all that and more, but I'm not embarrassed to say that I need to look it up to do so, but I am sure I do not come across well because I don't have instant recall - I have to shift context and that takes time.
Agreed on the financial issue as well; I would love to scream out loud "What better budget management could you have than someone who has successfully budgeted their own life" - in fact, I find most managers are exactly the ones up to their eyeballs in debt! I live in Michigan, and here, the Republican ideals drive the auto industry suppliers, and they use the exact same tactics and hiring as they do to their factory rats. Limited or no training to build for future, temporary opportunities, bad vibes everywhere, and when the focus of the job changes, back to unemployment. They keep you coming to work based upon how much debt you are in, and it is their control. They don't like it if you are uncontrollable. And Michigan wonders why it has such a broken workforce and no lucrative opportunities (IIRC, second in the nation for IT jobs leaving, and second for the amount of people leaving the state in 2004).
Exaggerate is interesting. I am only now discovering, after talking with recruiters and truly stupid HR people, that they are truly deadened and need a lot of fluff to get past their apathy. Only after they read my resume, w/23 years experience and an M.Sc., they say, wow, you are a solid candidate (but no significant job offers yet). But I have to really work to get them to even look.
IT needs to force respect - no business can do without it, yet I feel that IT people are the most selfish in the world. They don't seem to watch out for each other, because they don't view it as Ben. Franklin said, to paraphrase, if we don't hang together, we'll surely hang alone...
Oh, and please tell me where to contact your recruiter...
haha
PS Sorry for the rude comment above - it is just that there IS NO jobs available for that which you speak - on my resume it says "Data Structures and Algorithms" from a world-class university - why do I not get a call?
I can do all those things, write trees and balance them, understand Big-O, little-O, and omega, and can build a hash table and/or a btree. Yet, there is no place to say all of that on a 1 page resume, companies don't pay for academics, and doing it from memory, without refreshment, is near impossible, at least for me.
It is idiots like you that keep us all in the dark.
I cannot believe how many people do not understand the political power structures in this country! Man, the gray-hairs can be lethal!
As well, "growth", at the expense of other things, is not growth at all.
As a friend says - Why is the U.S. in a race to the bottom? (when there are examples of better living standards elsewhere)
As another poster alluded to, you are seeing the *effect* of years of drain of intellectualism and wealth from Kansas.
Add Michigan to that list: too many years of "good jobs" in the auto industry has left a whole state that now talks about supporting itself from tourism - despite the fact that it has well-known and regarded educational institutions.
When the left-coasters and big business concentrate wealth in their own "family" and geographically, draw away the local intellectuals, for generations, people in Kansas have their own determination of what is important to them.
Hint: it is not Science.
Mouser and Digikey are not necessarily able to supply ANY part - many parts are unavailable from them. The large-scale integration of components, coupled with software/firmware, coupled with the IP laws preventing disclosure will make it virtually impossible. Only reverse engineering could work, but have made it illegal vis DMCA to disclose, and noone has forgotten DVD Jon's antics and will make sure it doesn't happen like that, if at all possible.
the idea that everything you have is better-off leased, some conveniently forget that when you stop being able to pay, you are done.
If everything you have is leased, just like health insurance, within 30 days of no payment you no longer are eligble.
And, assuming you will always be viable, with no ups or downs, is naive. Go ask your dad and mom.
You pay the leaseor's rate for maintenance and depreciation - its not free.
When you retire, can you afford monthly bills from cable, phone, iTunes, Netflix, now Microsoft? You will have enough hard times getting the drugs you need or paying the inflated tax rates and rent that the upcoming generation of youth will pay thoughtlessly.
"Youth is wasted on the young". (unknown, but so profound)
taking a counteroffer, after you have already shown to be disloyal, offers problems. Even if you stay, don't count on anything because they know you can be bought for a few percent, and it just buys them time to find your replacement or marginalize you. As well as telling the other company - they don't like to be gamed...
Keep the big business and government control *away*, and allow independent, ad-hoc generation of energy through whatever process is feasible. (local) governments like to provide you with "Services", like water even if a well will suffice, which hooks you permanently as their revenue stream. Companies do the same as it determines how much you *must* work for them so you can heat your home or go anywhere, kindof like the healthcare slavery all Americans are exposed to now: get sick, insurance ends at the end of the month, and you are bankrupted. Don't have insurance? Die anyway because the safety nets don't work.
The Emperor has no Clothes.
I agree fully; we are our own worst enemy. As "architects" begin to architect IT, they have all the patterns, buzzwords, technologies, to make business and academics feel good about what they are accomplishing/spending/hiring. If, in fact, you were running software like you were launching a rocket to the moon, such NASA'esque scale and complexity for software may be helpful (but maybe not - see the report on the shuttle failure). But that, I suggest, is not where most endeavors lie.
I am sad about this industry because of it.
It was a superb architecture - an advanced interrupt driven, custom active chipsets, multiple bus hardware that could be used by a its preemptive multitasking OS which could really be used. Very high quality compilers, among many other things available. Was linear addressing memory, multitasking and running with the large networked systems while others still trying to figure out how to fit things into memory, rebooting between applications, or to load multiple network stacks at the same time.
i cal_user_interface#Amiga_Intuition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graph
Uhh, It kind of like that. It's not the water, but the packaging, marketing, and the distribution you are really paying for.
And, I am sure what you are really buying shifts as the financial advantage dictates...
Hey, I don't buy it either, but apparently many millions think it is OK.
"Which would you rather do? Write a single application that would run on all Windows systems, or six different ones, each with its own unique quality assurance and support problems? "
.INIs, then some .INIs and half a registry, then Win32s, Win32, then Win 9x and the registry, then NT, it's unique registry, then running 16 bit in 32 via thunk and later WoW, ad nauseum! Then, its C, then VB, then, Visual, then VB + VC++, whatever...
.dll, then VxDs, then .NET,...
Development, installation and running on multiple MS platforms was NEVER easy: how quick everyone forgets...
In Win 3.x installation was text files, then
Never mind the network. Monolithic, NDIS, NDISII, II(?), Netbios/NETBEUI, then Bill Gates invented the Internet and IP, then broken IP stacks....
Then COM, COM+, ADO, then AD, then....
Then this
MS Easy to Develop and maintain for, and runs on all machines my Rear.
You mean it would be better to continue letting companies/pyschopaths/sociopaths/marketing steer my wants and needs, socialize me, and monopolize my communications (mostly one-way) vs. a bunch of hand-selected people and ideas I wish to congregate with?
I welcome the day my group (whatever group) of people create a mini-Utopia, at least for themselves, *ignoring* those who want to dominate and exploit.
Let the designer mini-society begin, and let the best win.
You know, like Men In Black, erase our very experience when we leave the park/watch the video/listen to the Lion King!
Then, we have no option but to pay through the node *every* time!
Do most people like the idea of technology, like cameras, as a brain/memory enhancement and archival device, and the likes of RIAA/MPAA want a pay-per-view world? Kinda like today's wage slaves?