Do you remember Cyrix? And the first Intel Celery's? I do. Cyrix and it's ilk won every perf/price war, and the early Celerons were a complete joke. Scroll forward a few years...Cyrix is gone, and Intel rules the low cost microprocessor roost.
I was a technitian during the Cyrix days. They were absolute garbage. In the Pentium One days, they ran too hot and were unstable. Anytime that a Cyrix system came in for random crashing, all that you had to do was pull the CPU and replace it with an Intel and BANG, it was fixed and much faster. Even when the Cyrix had a highr PR rating.
In the Celeron days, I would never recommend that anyone buy a Cyrix. We wouldn't even sell them. The early-early Celerons were junk, but the 300A (which I believe was the 3rd or 4th chip available) put a stop to that. They were good little cips. In fact, I hardly ever saw a newish non-intel box during that period -- the odd AMD 300 would come in for service, but that was it.
They conclude by saying 'With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.'"
Sorry, I call BS. Degree production is down, because enrollment and completion is down, because the job market is down.
The schools were flooded during the.COM boom, then the bubble burst and there tons of people out of work and no jobs for the people coming out of school. Why would people gravitate towards an industry that is in a rut?
Reguarding the matching of future demand bit: that is what caused the problem in the first place. Deamand was projected way into the future to show the growth of the.COM bubble's period, and then it dropped into negative teritory. People came in to fill those projected jobs, but then they suddenly weren't there anymore, and many got burned.
/ loves software development / graduated 8 months ago with 2 years of industry experience / still unemployed
There is a famous saying (that I'm about to butcher) in the security world: there should always be three factor identifcation - something you carry (like an id), something you know (like a password), and something you own/are (like a fingerprint or dna).
Something you know (password), something you have (key/id/RNG), something you are (fingerprint, retina).
CNN mentions the guy who got fired from google for blogging. What they don't mention is that the guy who got fired from google for blogging seems to have been violating SEC regulations by publicly posting certain information relating to Google's financials...
The "information relating to Google's financials" was, and I quote:
they started off the day with a financials presentation, which was actually quite interesting. of course, i understand that they obviously will put a positive spin on everything, but the weight of the raw numbers is undeniable. both google's profits and revenue are growing at an unprecedented rate even while they are increasing their expenditures on capital and human resources. not to mention that google has been primarily focused on the u.s. market and is now turning their full attention to the global marketplace.
so after the interesting financials, the products team gave presentations reviewing product performance in 2004 and giving sneak peeks of the products we'll unveil in 2005. if you guys thought gmail and google groups were cool, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Bing Gordon, Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Electronic Arts (Research), was named the first holder of the Electronic Arts endowed faculty chair at the USC School of Cinema-Television, according to a statement from the company, the biggest video game publisher.
I love it. The guy endows himself as a faculty chair. Forever putting to rest the notion that University curriculum can't be bought.
The myth is that desktop programming is inherently single threaded and that there's no benefit to multi-threading.
Blocking man. There is a ready queue and a blocked list for a reason. Those disk accesses aren't instantaneous. Neither is waiting for input from the user, or waiting on a socket. If your thread is blocked, there might be other work that you can do while you wait.
At the risk of going too philosophical, the purpose of creating art is for it to be seen. Unlike the programmer who created the image generator program, the computer has no feeling of purpose to what it calculated.
But why does the program create output? Is it not to be seen?
The city has paid for the entire parking lot and street where RIM is located to be fitted with heating pipes so that there is never snow on the road.
That sounds more like an urban legend. I will have to check Columbia/Philip the next time that I cross it. I don't ever remember it being abnormally clear of snow for a semi-major intersection.
There is a city-wide holiday every October to commemorate the founding of the company.
That's Octoberfest. It has nothing to do with RIM. It's a celebration of K/W's german heritage. It existed before RIM, and before RIM was a player in anything.
Everyone has the day off...
Maybe every RIM employee does. The big Octoberfest event is usually held on a Sunday (with smaller ones on the Saturday and Friday).
there is a parade that ends in the RIM Performance Theatre where the CEO addresses the crowd...
Perhaps, I don't know if it ends at a civic building that was sponsored by RIM.
RIM employees actually have all their taxi expense paid for by the city
I've never heard that one before.
/ never had the misfortune of working for RIM
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I had heard awhile back that "Google" is so named because you cannot solely trademark(TM) numbers or words expressing numbers.
Is this not the case?
Shhhhh! The marketoids are working hard to promote this lie. Which brand story sounds more likable, a name chosen by a bunch of lawyers, and one that was come across through an innocent mistake.
Hahaha. Oh, those Google guys are so smart and succesful, but they make mistakes just like everyone else. In fact, their entire brand came out of a mistake. I make mistakes too -- I can be as big of a sucess as them. That makes me feel good. They must be really nice people. I will use their service.
I cannot see how this should impact the "serious" BT filetraders that much. Most clients used nowadays include dynamic blacklists, effectively blocking requests from services such as BayTSP to the torrent? BayTSP can't keep hopping IP's all the time without some ever increasing expenses?
Blacklists don't work. Assume that I am an agent of the (MP)|(RI)AA. I contact a consumer ISP and get a dynamic IP account. I run my scanner from the dynamic IP. There can be any of three results.
#1 because I am on a dynamic IP of a major ISP, I don't get blacklisted, and I can successfully run my scanner.
#2 the dynamic IP that I have now gets blacklisted, so I just release/renew to get a new one.
#3 the entire range that my ISP is using gets blacklisted. I can't run my scanner anymore on that ISP, but their customers can't download files eaither, thereby reducing the number of people participating in piracy. When the blacklist occurs, I simply switch to a new ISP. Repeat until I find an ISP that won't get blacklisted, or until all ISPs get blacklisted.
Under any of the above scenarios, the blacklist is virtually worthless.
They spend their time deciphering file formats that haven't been used for 10 years, but they don't include AbiWord or OpenOffice whose file format is open??
They probably bought someone else's stock library.
"The secret to programming is having smart friends." hahaha
I have to agree with that. I've solved many of my problems by IMing a friend. I might not know how to do X, but PersonA does, and he can shave a few days off of my learning curve by sending me in the right direction when I get stuck.
Sadly, some of my employers have had "no instant messaging" policies.
I just hope they don't get Ad-Aware and Spybot "on board with the program", to where they won't detect them.
Several years ago, there was talk about spy agencies using viruses to gather information from computers. Some reporter asked Symantec if they would exempt these viruses from U.S. agencies from being detected by their software. Symantec said that they wouldn't. They said that if they allowed U.S. viruses to be immune, then they would likely have to do the same for every other contry that they had an office in, which meant that more than one nation's would be immune, so their customers in any one nation wouldn't like it.
On the ASCII sort "bug", he writes dates have to be reversed to sort correctly. No, the correct way to write a date is 2004-11-29, what's the problem. That sorts correctly!;-)
I've been looking for work as a contract employee. I am going to grad school in 8 months, so I am available for 8 months (I was available for a year when I started looking). I put on my resume that I was going to leave in a year for grad school. I applied to "contract" positions that had the correct time-frame. I did this for 3-4 months. I didn't get a single reply.
Recently, I removed the statements that I plan to leave in a year, and I continued to apply to contract postions. Now I actually get responses. I get a lot of responses, in fact. It seems that all of these "contract" positions are really full-time positions without benifits or commitment from the employers, but they still expect a commitment from you. I even had one respond to me saying that they are offering "a contract position leading to full-time employment."
My prediction is that your company will constantly dangle the "full-time" carrot in front of you, but never deliver. Also, do you really want to work for a company that can't approve a full-time hire when it is needed? Or is this full-time line complete BS just to get you on board and can you when whatever project is done? Keep in mind also that if they decide that they don't want you, all that they have to do is not renew your contract, instead of fire you. You have no recource from that.
I don't mean to sound like a flamebait, but the parent has a very good point. Maybe it is time to consider the fact that while with age comes wisdom, with age also comes irrelevance with current day.
You should focus on the positive then. That means that laws should be generalized abstractions -- devoid of specifics which can tie them to a certain implementation or period.
"It is an offence to record communications over a private interstate chanel" not "It is an offence to record electronic signals traveling through a copper wire [blah blah blah... things that foce the law to be changed when technology changes]"
I believe, but could be mistaken, that there was actually a law that said it was a federal offence to ride a horse over a state line during the comission of a crime. The law had to be changed when cars were introduced.
Come on. Abstraction. Gerneralization. Seperation of Concerns. Encapsulation. This should all have been drilled into you during your first programming course.
I saw this story on T.V. a few times today. The reports said that the tools were found in what appeared to have been an ancient fire-pit or something along those lines.
I thought that carbon dating wasn't accurate when the material had been exposed to fire. That is supposedly why the Shroud of Turin can't be accurately dated.
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Do you remember Cyrix? And the first Intel Celery's? I do. Cyrix and it's ilk won every perf/price war, and the early Celerons were a complete joke. Scroll forward a few years...Cyrix is gone, and Intel rules the low cost microprocessor roost.
I was a technitian during the Cyrix days. They were absolute garbage. In the Pentium One days, they ran too hot and were unstable. Anytime that a Cyrix system came in for random crashing, all that you had to do was pull the CPU and replace it with an Intel and BANG, it was fixed and much faster. Even when the Cyrix had a highr PR rating.
In the Celeron days, I would never recommend that anyone buy a Cyrix. We wouldn't even sell them. The early-early Celerons were junk, but the 300A (which I believe was the 3rd or 4th chip available) put a stop to that. They were good little cips. In fact, I hardly ever saw a newish non-intel box during that period -- the odd AMD 300 would come in for service, but that was it.
we actually have a coding skills shortage. If you are thinking of getting involved, please look for a job instead.
Those who are unemployed and looking for work may have a different view of things.
Why does not Microsoft not release their OS, but hold it for a few months, have a large beta group of testers. Fix the bugs.
For the same reason that all software is rushed to ship quickly. Every day that it is held is a day that it doesn't generate sales.
They conclude by saying 'With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.'"
.COM boom, then the bubble burst and there tons of people out of work and no jobs for the people coming out of school. Why would people gravitate towards an industry that is in a rut?
.COM bubble's period, and then it dropped into negative teritory. People came in to fill those projected jobs, but then they suddenly weren't there anymore, and many got burned.
Sorry, I call BS. Degree production is down, because enrollment and completion is down, because the job market is down.
The schools were flooded during the
Reguarding the matching of future demand bit: that is what caused the problem in the first place. Deamand was projected way into the future to show the growth of the
/ loves software development
/ graduated 8 months ago with 2 years of industry experience
/ still unemployed
There is a famous saying (that I'm about to butcher) in the security world: there should always be three factor identifcation - something you carry (like an id), something you know (like a password), and something you own/are (like a fingerprint or dna).
Something you know (password), something you have (key/id/RNG), something you are (fingerprint, retina).
What they don't mention is that the guy who got fired from google for blogging seems to have been violating SEC regulations by publicly posting certain information relating to Google's financials...
The "information relating to Google's financials" was, and I quote:
Some people believe that he was fired for criticizing Google's compensation and benifits package, and otherwise not being a "team player."
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Bing Gordon, Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Electronic Arts (Research), was named the first holder of the Electronic Arts endowed faculty chair at the USC School of Cinema-Television, according to a statement from the company, the biggest video game publisher.
I love it. The guy endows himself as a faculty chair. Forever putting to rest the notion that University curriculum can't be bought.
Academic integrity @ USC => zero.
The myth is that desktop programming is inherently single threaded and that there's no benefit to multi-threading.
Blocking man. There is a ready queue and a blocked list for a reason. Those disk accesses aren't instantaneous. Neither is waiting for input from the user, or waiting on a socket. If your thread is blocked, there might be other work that you can do while you wait.
An IBM 7094 sang "Daisy" in 1961. Google.
And the Theremin was patented in 1929. Wiki.
I miss being able to make a call with a regular phone, especially long calls that might drain my battery.
When you get home, plug your phone into the charger. If you use it, leave it plugged in.
It would also be nice if I didn't have to hunt for my cellphone at home when it rings.
Leave it in the same place... attached to the charger.
The solution: write a memo. CC the higher ups.
At the risk of going too philosophical, the purpose of creating art is for it to be seen. Unlike the programmer who created the image generator program, the computer has no feeling of purpose to what it calculated.
But why does the program create output? Is it not to be seen?
The city has paid for the entire parking lot and street where RIM is located to be fitted with heating pipes so that there is never snow on the road.
That sounds more like an urban legend. I will have to check Columbia/Philip the next time that I cross it. I don't ever remember it being abnormally clear of snow for a semi-major intersection.
There is a city-wide holiday every October to commemorate the founding of the company.
That's Octoberfest. It has nothing to do with RIM. It's a celebration of K/W's german heritage. It existed before RIM, and before RIM was a player in anything.
Everyone has the day off...
Maybe every RIM employee does. The big Octoberfest event is usually held on a Sunday (with smaller ones on the Saturday and Friday).
there is a parade that ends in the RIM Performance Theatre where the CEO addresses the crowd...
Perhaps, I don't know if it ends at a civic building that was sponsored by RIM.
RIM employees actually have all their taxi expense paid for by the city
I've never heard that one before.
/ never had the misfortune of working for RIM
I had heard awhile back that "Google" is so named because you cannot solely trademark(TM) numbers or words expressing numbers.
Is this not the case?
Shhhhh! The marketoids are working hard to promote this lie. Which brand story sounds more likable, a name chosen by a bunch of lawyers, and one that was come across through an innocent mistake.
Hahaha. Oh, those Google guys are so smart and succesful, but they make mistakes just like everyone else. In fact, their entire brand came out of a mistake. I make mistakes too -- I can be as big of a sucess as them. That makes me feel good. They must be really nice people. I will use their service.
http://www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf
I cannot see how this should impact the "serious" BT filetraders that much. Most clients used nowadays include dynamic blacklists, effectively blocking requests from services such as BayTSP to the torrent? BayTSP can't keep hopping IP's all the time without some ever increasing expenses?
Blacklists don't work. Assume that I am an agent of the (MP)|(RI)AA. I contact a consumer ISP and get a dynamic IP account. I run my scanner from the dynamic IP. There can be any of three results.
#1 because I am on a dynamic IP of a major ISP, I don't get blacklisted, and I can successfully run my scanner.
#2 the dynamic IP that I have now gets blacklisted, so I just release/renew to get a new one.
#3 the entire range that my ISP is using gets blacklisted. I can't run my scanner anymore on that ISP, but their customers can't download files eaither, thereby reducing the number of people participating in piracy. When the blacklist occurs, I simply switch to a new ISP. Repeat until I find an ISP that won't get blacklisted, or until all ISPs get blacklisted.
Under any of the above scenarios, the blacklist is virtually worthless.
They spend their time deciphering file formats that haven't been used for 10 years, but they don't include AbiWord or OpenOffice whose file format is open??
They probably bought someone else's stock library.
"The secret to programming is having smart friends." hahaha
I have to agree with that. I've solved many of my problems by IMing a friend. I might not know how to do X, but PersonA does, and he can shave a few days off of my learning curve by sending me in the right direction when I get stuck.
Sadly, some of my employers have had "no instant messaging" policies.
I just hope they don't get Ad-Aware and Spybot "on board with the program", to where they won't detect them.
Several years ago, there was talk about spy agencies using viruses to gather information from computers. Some reporter asked Symantec if they would exempt these viruses from U.S. agencies from being detected by their software. Symantec said that they wouldn't. They said that if they allowed U.S. viruses to be immune, then they would likely have to do the same for every other contry that they had an office in, which meant that more than one nation's would be immune, so their customers in any one nation wouldn't like it.
...just another self-obsessed, self-promoting, intellectually challenged blogger.
But... you said that you liked my blog. You said that I was very talented. Was that just to get into my bed?
On the ASCII sort "bug", he writes dates have to be reversed to sort correctly. No, the correct way to write a date is 2004-11-29, what's the problem. That sorts correctly! ;-)
Actually, YYYY-MM-DD is ISO 8601 date format. It is the standard.
ISO 8601 has the nice effect of also being ASCII sortable.
Here's my anecdote.
I've been looking for work as a contract employee. I am going to grad school in 8 months, so I am available for 8 months (I was available for a year when I started looking). I put on my resume that I was going to leave in a year for grad school. I applied to "contract" positions that had the correct time-frame. I did this for 3-4 months. I didn't get a single reply.
Recently, I removed the statements that I plan to leave in a year, and I continued to apply to contract postions. Now I actually get responses. I get a lot of responses, in fact. It seems that all of these "contract" positions are really full-time positions without benifits or commitment from the employers, but they still expect a commitment from you. I even had one respond to me saying that they are offering "a contract position leading to full-time employment."
My prediction is that your company will constantly dangle the "full-time" carrot in front of you, but never deliver. Also, do you really want to work for a company that can't approve a full-time hire when it is needed? Or is this full-time line complete BS just to get you on board and can you when whatever project is done? Keep in mind also that if they decide that they don't want you, all that they have to do is not renew your contract, instead of fire you. You have no recource from that.
I don't mean to sound like a flamebait, but the parent has a very good point. Maybe it is time to consider the fact that while with age comes wisdom, with age also comes irrelevance with current day.
You should focus on the positive then. That means that laws should be generalized abstractions -- devoid of specifics which can tie them to a certain implementation or period.
"It is an offence to record communications over a private interstate chanel" not "It is an offence to record electronic signals traveling through a copper wire [blah blah blah... things that foce the law to be changed when technology changes]"
I believe, but could be mistaken, that there was actually a law that said it was a federal offence to ride a horse over a state line during the comission of a crime. The law had to be changed when cars were introduced.
Come on. Abstraction. Gerneralization. Seperation of Concerns. Encapsulation. This should all have been drilled into you during your first programming course.
adding to this...
I saw this story on T.V. a few times today. The reports said that the tools were found in what appeared to have been an ancient fire-pit or something along those lines.
I thought that carbon dating wasn't accurate when the material had been exposed to fire. That is supposedly why the Shroud of Turin can't be accurately dated.