I'm sure there will be plenty of fanbois in this discussion, but this is the person you chose to call out?
He seems to be more or less right. This kind of scheduling might help many processor-intensive tasks, but this kind of scheduling isn't available to the majority of software, and it's obvious that Windows isn't smart enough to do it either. Unless AMD gets Windows support, or BIOS trickery as mentioned at the end of the article... these chips will be under-utilized.
But no, you come here to say, in essence, "people with contrary opinions suck," no matter how reasonable they may be. It is you who reveals yourself to be a fanboy, if that's all you have to add.
One of the things we strive for is efficiency; specifically, monetary efficiency. We adopt new methods when new methods are more efficient. Not just more efficient, even, but sufficiently more efficient such that the cost of the conversion to the new method will be recovered in a reasonable amount of time; e.g., that the new method is sufficiently efficient to be monetarily beneficent.
(I think this post needs more -icients and -icents)
We can design and make machines to do things better than we can. That there are fewer jobs for us to do, given the above, should not come as a surprise.
I think, by mentioning the Milky Way, (s)he was trying to emphasize how clear the viewing conditions normally are where (s)he lives; and that therefore the aurora was extremely vivid, given the lack of light pollution and whatnot.
Mmm, no. Third party modders do a lot of work, and make some really awesome builds, with all kinds of customizations and new features. Cyanogenmod, for instance. Quite the opposite of working for a large company with resources, their developer are now actually being hired by big companies because of their freelance work.
Came here to say exactly this. e-beam is a dead end, it's simply not manufacturable. They have to write every single stinkin' bit on in the whole harddrive individually and serially.
The more interesting part, I think, is discussing why they're exploring this: they're trying to reduce bit size by utilizing a single magnetic particle per bit, instead of several. Sounds like standard litho with pitch doubling or tripling or quadrupling might be able to get the dimensions required. But that's a long, expensive process to develop, compared to e-beam, which is just litho.
Sounds more like they tackled an easy problem on their way to getting to what they really want to investigate, really.
Analogy, it seems that word means what you think it means... Not only is that a terrible analogy that in no way describes the situation (unless where you come from, it's common to leave phones and other small personal articles in public areas and away from your person), there's also no such thing as proof by analogy.
The summary is pretty bad, this is one where you need to RTFA. My initial reaction was pretty much the same as yours.
An excerpt (and sorry, I don't know how to do proper quotes):
"Instead, the MIT researchers found that shining light on a sheet of graphene, treated so that it had two regions with different electrical properties, creates a temperature difference that, in turn, generates a current. Graphene heats inconsistently when illuminated by a laser, Jarillo-Herrero and his colleagues found: The material’s electrons, which carry current, are heated by the light, but the lattice of carbon nuclei that forms graphene’s backbone remains cool. It’s this difference in temperature within the material that produces the flow of electricity. This mechanism, dubbed a “hot-carrier” response, “is very unusual,” Jarillo-Herrero says."
I'm still a little confused about all the talk about heat, but maybe that's just because my understanding of hot carrier effects is informed by carrier transport in devices built in classical substrates, where it basically just means "carriers which have attained sufficient energy relative to properties of the system." Best guess is that it sounds like nearly all of the light's energy creates high energy carriers, with none of it going to creating lattice vibrations and whatnot that would hurt carrier mobility. This could be different than the photoelectric effect, because it may not be generating new carriers (which is pretty loosely defined in graphene anyway), just elevating the energy levels of existing ones.
No, "spectrum" is not measured by the amount of information sent or received. It refers to "electromagnetic spectrum," and in this context, it means the range of frequencies suitable for wireless communication.
Hahaha, I love how anyone who disagrees with you has an "elitist" attitude.
Note that I never claimed that engineers were better or more deserving. Just pointed out that the difference seems to exist, and that maybe you should take advantage of it. That point, of course, you seem to have completely ignored.
Your attitude is your worst enemy, it seems. Yes, you're so spoiled, and toiled so hard for your college degree, all of your worldly desires should just fall into place now. When they don't, you threaten strangers and, implicitly, admit to resorting to illegal acts, or at least the desire to commit them. Yeah, you're exactly the kind of person I want to work with, who I want to be employed alongside.
And I'm not even an SE. Just knowing my company employed someone like you would be enough. Which also makes all your comments about things being "rosy" for me and me being elitist even funnier. I'm just trying to tell you how it is; you can use it to further your interests or just be bitter, I really don't care.
Note that I didn't claim anything about merits of the credentials. Just that they exist, and that some people - evidently, those that matter, if you want to be gainfully employed - do see something of value in them.
Just checked the user string on my Android phone. It's Dolphin, so maybe it's different, but I think Dolphin just adds on to the generic Browser.
At any rate, the string includes Mozilla/5.0, AppleWebKit/533.1, and Mobile Safari/533.1. No mention of chrome.
Besides, it's easy enough to filter the strings the collected by the stats counters to remove anything that reports itself as Android, I can't imagine they're not doing that.
Nothing says a mason isn't capable of designing a good bridge, either. Simply that without the credentials, there's no trust.
I think this has more to do with the fact that software is a relatively new area that grew rapidly. It began with computer science degrees, because it was more a science than engineering. Now, computer science degrees - from what I've seen - still focus more on abstract minutia and theory, while software engineering has more classes in forward-looking design and sustainability and, as with all engineering degrees, ethics. Which sucks for the people who went to school before software as an engineering degree came to exist, now that there's that perception of difference.
Your story says the same thing. First you were hired as a hacker (not an engineer) and that's the kind of thing a CS degree is better for. Industry matured, your credentials didn't. I think it's pretty obvious that it has to do with your degree. Sucks for you, but you could do something about it, other than make ridiculous claims about this conspiracy that only engineers can be good software designers, and that this somehow justifies (or is even at all related to) the anon and lulzsec tards.
Truth of it is, as software has grown into an industry that lots of things depend on, people want engineers to be supporting it, just like designing bridges or buildings or computer chips or cars. It's not that no one else can do it; it's simply that those with engineering degrees have verifiable credentials for doing it, and that historically societies place trust in engineers. It's not taken so seriously in the US, but in Canada for example, all practicing engineers have to be registered and take an oath and whatnot. Not indifferent from those practicing medicine.
If hacking is what you want, major software isn't the place for you to be working. Try getting a job as an indie game dev or something, or shoring up your credentials. As (I suppose) a CS grad, it shouldn't take much for you to pick up the SE degree. If you've been good at your job, chances are your employer will support you to keep you around.
But if you're just going to whine profanely on/. and blame everyone else, then I have no sympathy. Life isn't always fair. Man up and make the best of it.
Didn't know that. But it's a proxy; it doesn't need to be on the local machine. Just need to have one machine on the network configured to receive requests from the rest of the machines. It's supported by OpenWRT routers, too.
hosts wouldn't really work either, would it? If you add any facebook domains to it, you're going to break Facebook when you go to the actual site. Privoxy can detect any referrals to Facebook when you're on a non-Facebook domain, block it and block cookie info from being sent. If it detects you're actually visiting Facebook, it doesn't. That doesn't seem like something hosts can do.
Don't recall where I found this, but add this to user.action:
# Facebook # This is used for blocking Facebook Open Graph stuff, where third party # sites include resources from Facebook.
#See if the referrer is even set. {+client-header-tagger{referrer-set-facebook}}.facebook.com
#If a referrer was set, block cookies. {+block{Facebook Open Graph blocked.} +crunch-outgoing-cookies} TAG:^referrer-set-facebook:
#Except if it was referred by facebook, make sure we allow the cookies. {-block allow-all-cookies} TAG:^referrer-set-facebook:(?:https?://)?.*\.?(facebook.com)(?:/.*)?$
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...yeah, if you ignore that whole being hugely popular thing.
I'm sure there will be plenty of fanbois in this discussion, but this is the person you chose to call out?
He seems to be more or less right. This kind of scheduling might help many processor-intensive tasks, but this kind of scheduling isn't available to the majority of software, and it's obvious that Windows isn't smart enough to do it either. Unless AMD gets Windows support, or BIOS trickery as mentioned at the end of the article... these chips will be under-utilized.
But no, you come here to say, in essence, "people with contrary opinions suck," no matter how reasonable they may be. It is you who reveals yourself to be a fanboy, if that's all you have to add.
That's more or less what I'm getting at. Adjust the rules, don't blame people for living within them.
So, what's the point of having rules, if not to be used as the limit for behavior?
Exactly.
One of the things we strive for is efficiency; specifically, monetary efficiency. We adopt new methods when new methods are more efficient. Not just more efficient, even, but sufficiently more efficient such that the cost of the conversion to the new method will be recovered in a reasonable amount of time; e.g., that the new method is sufficiently efficient to be monetarily beneficent.
(I think this post needs more -icients and -icents)
We can design and make machines to do things better than we can. That there are fewer jobs for us to do, given the above, should not come as a surprise.
I think, by mentioning the Milky Way, (s)he was trying to emphasize how clear the viewing conditions normally are where (s)he lives; and that therefore the aurora was extremely vivid, given the lack of light pollution and whatnot.
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
Bottom right-hand corner.
Mmm, no. Third party modders do a lot of work, and make some really awesome builds, with all kinds of customizations and new features. Cyanogenmod, for instance. Quite the opposite of working for a large company with resources, their developer are now actually being hired by big companies because of their freelance work.
Came here to say exactly this. e-beam is a dead end, it's simply not manufacturable. They have to write every single stinkin' bit on in the whole harddrive individually and serially.
The more interesting part, I think, is discussing why they're exploring this: they're trying to reduce bit size by utilizing a single magnetic particle per bit, instead of several. Sounds like standard litho with pitch doubling or tripling or quadrupling might be able to get the dimensions required. But that's a long, expensive process to develop, compared to e-beam, which is just litho.
Sounds more like they tackled an easy problem on their way to getting to what they really want to investigate, really.
Stop ruining people's rants with simple facts and research, it's not very nice.
Analogy, it seems that word means what you think it means... Not only is that a terrible analogy that in no way describes the situation (unless where you come from, it's common to leave phones and other small personal articles in public areas and away from your person), there's also no such thing as proof by analogy.
The summary is pretty bad, this is one where you need to RTFA. My initial reaction was pretty much the same as yours.
An excerpt (and sorry, I don't know how to do proper quotes):
"Instead, the MIT researchers found that shining light on a sheet of graphene, treated so that it had two regions with different electrical properties, creates a temperature difference that, in turn, generates a current. Graphene heats inconsistently when illuminated by a laser, Jarillo-Herrero and his colleagues found: The material’s electrons, which carry current, are heated by the light, but the lattice of carbon nuclei that forms graphene’s backbone remains cool. It’s this difference in temperature within the material that produces the flow of electricity. This mechanism, dubbed a “hot-carrier” response, “is very unusual,” Jarillo-Herrero says."
I'm still a little confused about all the talk about heat, but maybe that's just because my understanding of hot carrier effects is informed by carrier transport in devices built in classical substrates, where it basically just means "carriers which have attained sufficient energy relative to properties of the system." Best guess is that it sounds like nearly all of the light's energy creates high energy carriers, with none of it going to creating lattice vibrations and whatnot that would hurt carrier mobility. This could be different than the photoelectric effect, because it may not be generating new carriers (which is pretty loosely defined in graphene anyway), just elevating the energy levels of existing ones.
Then again, with Google being accused of scraping Yelp! reviews etc., they might have a lot to lose.
No, "spectrum" is not measured by the amount of information sent or received. It refers to "electromagnetic spectrum," and in this context, it means the range of frequencies suitable for wireless communication.
I think you meant "overstatement;" perhaps more accurately, "hyperbolic."
Hahaha, I love how anyone who disagrees with you has an "elitist" attitude.
Note that I never claimed that engineers were better or more deserving. Just pointed out that the difference seems to exist, and that maybe you should take advantage of it. That point, of course, you seem to have completely ignored.
Your attitude is your worst enemy, it seems. Yes, you're so spoiled, and toiled so hard for your college degree, all of your worldly desires should just fall into place now. When they don't, you threaten strangers and, implicitly, admit to resorting to illegal acts, or at least the desire to commit them. Yeah, you're exactly the kind of person I want to work with, who I want to be employed alongside.
And I'm not even an SE. Just knowing my company employed someone like you would be enough. Which also makes all your comments about things being "rosy" for me and me being elitist even funnier. I'm just trying to tell you how it is; you can use it to further your interests or just be bitter, I really don't care.
Note that I didn't claim anything about merits of the credentials. Just that they exist, and that some people - evidently, those that matter, if you want to be gainfully employed - do see something of value in them.
Are those engineers software engineers or just engineers who, if required, could hack something up in a pinch?
Just checked the user string on my Android phone. It's Dolphin, so maybe it's different, but I think Dolphin just adds on to the generic Browser.
At any rate, the string includes Mozilla/5.0, AppleWebKit/533.1, and Mobile Safari/533.1. No mention of chrome.
Besides, it's easy enough to filter the strings the collected by the stats counters to remove anything that reports itself as Android, I can't imagine they're not doing that.
He said none of what you allege.
Nothing says a mason isn't capable of designing a good bridge, either. Simply that without the credentials, there's no trust.
I think this has more to do with the fact that software is a relatively new area that grew rapidly. It began with computer science degrees, because it was more a science than engineering. Now, computer science degrees - from what I've seen - still focus more on abstract minutia and theory, while software engineering has more classes in forward-looking design and sustainability and, as with all engineering degrees, ethics. Which sucks for the people who went to school before software as an engineering degree came to exist, now that there's that perception of difference.
Your story says the same thing. First you were hired as a hacker (not an engineer) and that's the kind of thing a CS degree is better for. Industry matured, your credentials didn't. I think it's pretty obvious that it has to do with your degree. Sucks for you, but you could do something about it, other than make ridiculous claims about this conspiracy that only engineers can be good software designers, and that this somehow justifies (or is even at all related to) the anon and lulzsec tards.
Truth of it is, as software has grown into an industry that lots of things depend on, people want engineers to be supporting it, just like designing bridges or buildings or computer chips or cars. It's not that no one else can do it; it's simply that those with engineering degrees have verifiable credentials for doing it, and that historically societies place trust in engineers. It's not taken so seriously in the US, but in Canada for example, all practicing engineers have to be registered and take an oath and whatnot. Not indifferent from those practicing medicine.
If hacking is what you want, major software isn't the place for you to be working. Try getting a job as an indie game dev or something, or shoring up your credentials. As (I suppose) a CS grad, it shouldn't take much for you to pick up the SE degree. If you've been good at your job, chances are your employer will support you to keep you around.
But if you're just going to whine profanely on /. and blame everyone else, then I have no sympathy. Life isn't always fair. Man up and make the best of it.
Didn't know that. But it's a proxy; it doesn't need to be on the local machine. Just need to have one machine on the network configured to receive requests from the rest of the machines. It's supported by OpenWRT routers, too.
hosts wouldn't really work either, would it? If you add any facebook domains to it, you're going to break Facebook when you go to the actual site. Privoxy can detect any referrals to Facebook when you're on a non-Facebook domain, block it and block cookie info from being sent. If it detects you're actually visiting Facebook, it doesn't. That doesn't seem like something hosts can do.
https://bmearns.net/wwk/view/Privoxy
Privoxy can. And it's browser agnostic.
Don't recall where I found this, but add this to user.action:
# Facebook
# This is used for blocking Facebook Open Graph stuff, where third party
# sites include resources from Facebook.
#See if the referrer is even set. .facebook.com
{+client-header-tagger{referrer-set-facebook}}
#If a referrer was set, block cookies.
{+block{Facebook Open Graph blocked.} +crunch-outgoing-cookies}
TAG:^referrer-set-facebook:
#Except if it was referred by facebook, make sure we allow the cookies.
{-block allow-all-cookies}
TAG:^referrer-set-facebook:(?:https?://)?.*\.?(facebook.com)(?:/.*)?$
{+block{Facebook} +crunch-all-cookies } .facebook.com/plugins .*connect.facebook.com .facebook.com/extern /(.*/)fb.connect.* .connect.facebook.* /.*/FB\.Share
api.ak.facebook.com/*
*.facebook.com/(.*/)connect/*
Note that Slashdot is probably messing up some of the linebreaks.