Maybe the flash is to record the last three days of accelerometer usage, so if you break it the repair guy will know you threw it against the wall in frustration;)
And Hurd has been working on a microkernel approach for the last... twenty years. Seems some designs lend better to distributed development than others. Or perhaps it's merely a matter of organizations, with Cathedral central designs underperforming Bazaar like organizations.
If joe wants to play his mp3s, he'll need to take it up with the people asking for cold hard cash for the privledge of listening to his music. This is what happens when Joe User allows the people who disrespect intellectual property entirely (aka The Scene) dictate technological choices.
Enabling mp3 support could hurt them in a number of very real senses. If they choose to purchase a licscence for every user (and subsequent user as possible under the GPL) they'd be out serious dough. If they choose to distribute such software without paying, they've exposed themselves to legal liability above that cost. If they use the recently created legal gstreamer-mp3 plugin, they cannot fully comply with the spirit of Open Source and the GPL. And by supporting mp3 they also implicitly support software patents.
It's unfortunate that this problem exists, and it's all because a piracy group or two started releasing mp3s to the public, instead of carefully investigating and developing their own solution. Essentially, the public has bought into disreguarding intellectual property and they'll have to dig themselves out of this mess one way or another eventually. I think the current RestrictedFormats system is burying one's head in the sand and won't solve any problems in the long run.
The only good news here is that the first of the mp3 patents (and only?) is expected to expire in 2010. But even then, the argument only shifts from how awful it is that mp3s don't work to how awful h264 playback is, and why various movie files people have don't play on Ubuntu.
Slow. While CVS isn't the fastest animal, I found some actions in Subversion even slower. And sometimes Subclipse just leaves you waiting up to tens of seconds when for example a conflict is detected. After posting on the excellent Subclipse mailing list, the problem was acknowledged. A few days later, a release was available through the Eclipse update screens which fixed this bug.
Actually, I think this is more something with eclipse or the plugin than subversion itself. The command line tools seem quite fast, but even with the latest updates, the damn thing's slow. It also chews through a ton of objects, so much so that I sometimes encounter thrashing. But a far more important bug in my view is that apparently drag and dropping directories in your project may not be reflected appropriately in SVN, resulting in your commit being screwy and updating pulling back in the directory you wanted moved.
Definitely, subclipse isn't as fully integrated as CVS is. Hopefully it will be able to catch up soon and make the nessecary improvements.
Ah yes, modern RPGs couldn't be further from their origins. Playing with story, ie roleplaying, is largely missing from modern games. I don't believe that adding "plot" and "storyline" fixes the problem. The goal here should be allow the player to play with plot and storyline, rather than ensuring that certain things "happen" to your "character." In a way, I agree with Ebert. You can't have true authorship from the creator and true roleplaying games at the same time. I suspect experienced DMs understand this as well. Moreover, why do people play D&D? To assume one of a set of fairly cliched roles, or to crawl through a maze slaying monsters and working as a team to accomplish a goal? I suggest that the length of the rulebook dedicated to combat encodes an answer.
What a silly progression. Games aren't nessecarily stories. PacMan was no less a classic for it's shallow plot, nor Tetris less addictive. I'd much rather see them focus on innovative gameplay than improving the plotline in "The next epic quest where a lone boy finds some friends and saves the world." It's a lost cause; if you seek a story, read a book, watch a show. Games are not storytelling.
The primary reponsibility of an engineer is to know what happens when things go wrong and plan for them.
In that reguard, this post was absurd. While the medical costs of coal miners and oil rig workers is high, the risks for everyone else in coal generated and gasoline power and is mostly limited to accidental suffication from car exhaust and climate change. Labelling the well known medical dangers of a gas powered car anywhere near the long term effects of strontium is the "crazy" part, sir.
You ever see a car explode on impact? I haven't. The worst I've seen is when a F1 driver took off before his gas line was detached, resulting in a firey spray, a short burn off on gasoline on the car, and a couple of poor burn victims. The ER people were fine, most of the driver's crew was okay. The crew in the next pit over was fine. The crew in that station on the next race suffered on ill effects. Gasoline mostly doesn't explode. Only when you've refined it with a good mixture of oxygen and gasoline mist does it even come close.
Contrast this with what happens when you put substantial fissile material in a car. Strontium is dangerous because it's chemically similar to Calcium (hence the bone cancer stuff - it replaces calcium in your bones then decays). If any of this leaks out in a collision, the driver and passengers suffer the usual impact trauma, and instead of the somewhat rare likelyhood of fire, you're now threatened with an invisible specter. Moreover, emergency response crews are subjected to the same stuff, and unless it's cleaned up, the site remains contaminated with the stuff, and seeps into the groundwater as rains come in. And god forbid these things end up in the creek bed like idiots with worn tires try. To quantify these potential social costs as "all but free" is ludicrious, and the implicit suggestion that this would be cheaper than gasoline systems simply takes the cake.
A good number of my local LUG members are "IT guys" that support multiple small businesses in the manner described above. Being in the business requires supporting Windows, but has nothing to do with liking it. And even something close to "Scenario 1" has come up occasionally. For example, an optometrist had an outdated install of SuSE on his desktop. Unfortunately, I can't give you any information on how many of their clients find Linux acceptable for their needs. Especially with medium sized businesses, there are often software and networks that run only on Windows and are essentially required to maintain their business partners.
The google map of enterprises looked similar at a high level, but when you zoom in on silicon valley, you find it places a TON of blips there, not 3. If you want to avoid that and examine the Debian Developer locations, I suggest this map.
Things you'll notice is that there's still a good cluster in Silicon Valley, but there's also a good cluster in Boston, and the seemingly huge list of European locations isn't quite so huge, there's just more cities with less people. Most interestingly, there's very few Russian participants, despite there being plenty of talented software developers. Finally, the largest Debian developer area is probably Tokyo.
Ah, most with such High FICOs are generally well off enough that should we choose to purchase such a mac, we don't have to take out a loan to do so. I think their financing is either an attempt to establish/reinforce their image as a luxury item (you can't afford this!), or an opportunity to cash in on the already existing need to be seen with something expensive.
I'll believe that sales pitch when the weapon manufacturers remove batteries from their mines, and give those mines to their own children to play with.
And they should also earn the title of "Coolest Parent on the Block EVER!"
Price is determined by both supply and demand. On the supply side, there's a reason a retailer is willing to accomodate the group: it's a lot of sales at once. Because it's more efficient, the cost to the retailer should go down. On the demand side, it also fights many of the retailer tactics to improve their margins: loss leader items are designed to bring people into the store. You come in to buy a new CD cheap, and leave with a new car stereo system. They're counting on consumers not spending time researching all their options and visiting other stores.
Realistically, there's already concepts in the american market like this. For example, retailers themselvse purchase from wholesale the product you want, and use volume to get discounts; the difference is they don't share all the profits with you. But the more competitors a given retail outfit has, the more they'll share with you. So if you want to try this, make sure to hit up a Circuit City within a 5 minute drive of a mall and a Best Buy.
I partly wonder what the hell you could buy that a retailer would have 500 of on hand. Or even 100. Food? The margins are already quite thin there; you can't negotiate a deal on that. Cars? Possibly. Electronics? That's what they were buying in story, mostly. My personal favorite: apartments? Only in China would you find that much free occupancy, and bargining is already built into the apartment rent game.
Instead, I suspect the real reason this wouldn't happen in the states is that the people who organize it would negotiate a volume discount and keep a bit of it for themselves. Sort of like what already happens with Sam's Club and Costco. I shudder to think what would happen if it did become acceptable in the US: astroturf groups paid for by retailers to solicit such group bargining.
I'm not sure how that post is "Funny," but the things modern static analysis are typically written to catch are concurrency problems. Java isn't quite plagued as much by the incorrect usage of pointers in C that inspired the creation of lint, but multithreading code is still dangerous and difficult to get right. At the very least, these things are usually quite self-sufficient; you'd be a fool to turn them down a daily generated report even if it doesn't catch EVERY potential pitfall.
iSuppli can calculate based on advertised prices from manufacturers, but Apple has easily negotiated special high volume deals. In fact, I believe the original iPod was one of the first microdrives and Apple landed an exclusive contract for them.
So if what if I run an establishement that prohibits smoking, but the smokers club next door requires it? If there's any drift of smoke from one to the other, doesn't this cause problems? There's a cost to relocating my establishment elsewhere, and if most people agree that "next to the smokers club" is a bad location, it will have a negative impact on my property's value.
Of course, these days they rely on highly sophisticated Computer Equipment. They'll willfully sign off on a design made with a tool bundled with a "NO LIABILITY IF WE TOTALLY FUCK UP" EULA, and have relatively little understanding of what's going on or how floating point errors accumulate. And god forbid the system they engineer contain a computer component. How can you ethically sign off on such a device without spending another 4 years in college learning proper software testing and construction techniques?
Moreover, there ARE systems these days with a significant software component, where human lives hang in the balance. The best reason software engineers don't sign up for that is that the government doesn't provide for it. Despite people asking for it. Despite there already being a huge industrial exemption leading to only 15 percent of EEs to go to acquire a PE. I work in a research lab designing prototype medical devices to measure things like pulse. If these designs become adapted for public use, who do you think should sign off on them?
Kuro5hin runs a community based system for writing. These days it's mostly oil conspiracy and other political nonsense, but this situation probably arose after personal blogs became popular. Anyways, it's got a lot of extra features that make sense for internet collaboration, so you'd have to check it out to make sure it makes sense for your organization. I'm sure some of them make some good sense, like an editing mode where others can make suggestions for improvement, and some of the others might need more tweaking. Obviously you want some editorial control over your site, so the democratic decisions to post or not post an article are probably inadaquate for your group.
Of course, MEPIS is a one man commercial affair. It's one guy who decided to try making a profit at this. And it requires the upstream to offer b). b) is more than a publicly available FTP. B requires you to offer the source code to ALL comers for 3 years. For every binary version you release under the GPL. So its no surprise that this subsection is rarely followed, and you might see if the GPL 3 still includes this.
But I can't see any commercial distribution refusing to offer source code to unmodified binaries in direct contradiction to the GPL for very long. At the very least, they should be able to accomodate a request via the same route they had intended the recipient to use.
Not that it excuses the kind of CYA mentality, but certain plenty of religious affilitated image conscious schools require their athletes sign a code of conduct, like no drinking in public, etc, as a condition of recieving the scholarship. Apparently Kent State believes these sorts of ties between conduct and finance aren't enough to prevent it from being known that their athletes aren't infalliable supermen who excel in athletic, academic and moral standing, and wishes to add what is essentially an NDA to their contract.
Something here is broken. Maybe it's that Universities, institutes of higher education, are resorting to sporting events as a recruiting campaign. Maybe it's the number of schools pitting athletes against each other such that success requires dedication to the exclusion of personal growth. Maybe it's students, for being so vain as to photograph themselves in comprimising situations, and think that the public Internet is a suitable place to distribute these to close friends and strangers alike. Maybe it's you and me for watching the whole thing. But lets face it, there's no Rose Bowl for the most wholesome two teams in the nation. The Final Four aren't the four people left at the party who refused to hook up with drunken coeds.
Practical clothes can be churned out by machines in a matter of seconds, if we set them up and tell them to do it, yet much of what is worn in the so-called first world is made by hand by people leaving in poverty conditions in less-developed countries.
Would it be much better if we just built the machines and leave these people unemployed? You want to live in a world where everyone gives a thirsty man a drink, but I think you give human nature too much credit. But the world isn't lost simply because we lack total compassion; if you can give a thirsty man a drink and make a profit, the only places you'd find thirsty people are dictatorships with no interest anything but the maintaince of their own power.
Refusing to support people who employ those people is akin to enforcing a permanent beggar class. The kernel of your argument appears to be "it's not fair!" I've heard that from a number of children.
Heh, we've got a meg of cache too. Sometimes more. But if there's any coherency at all, caching will work just fine on the relevant part of that 1M of code.
Firstly, you're looking in exactly the wrong order. If you were looking for a research assistant, would you ask a student you know, or would you put an ad in the local college paper? Hopefully, you'd choose a student you know. You have a good idea of who they are, their work ethic, etc. And you won't have to somehow sort through the flood of applications you'd receive in a newspaper posting. So a newspaper is exactly the last place to look for most jobs, unless the employer is hoping to find the cheapest among several qualified applicatants. I don't believe Intel actually places ads in papers; some places prefer that you take interest in their company and seek them out instead. If you want to match your cirriculum to employers needs, I'd hope your "institute" has a few industry connections, since this is often a good avenue to your students actually getting a job. These are the people you need to talk to.
Secondly, 2 years training to design microprocessors? What exactly would they be doing, that only takes two years to go from high school education, to mastered enough to be productive? Programming microcontroller devices, maybe. Designing them in today's market takes a knowledge of what's been done in the past, and ways one might improve them. The industry is simply too competitive to accept the kinds of mistakes and inefficiencies a novice would make when multiplied by a large scale production run. A 4 year degree is a good start, nothing more. Many of the largest chip design places have internal education to address academic cirriculum shortcomings. These would also be good people to talk to.
Finally, what do you think qualifies as a distinction between a microcontroller and an embedded system? I'd say not much. 386's are being used more often now, in places where DOS or Linux can do far more than a PIC traditionally does. And if you're seeing so many postings for embedded systems, remember that a number of these projects are likely for US military applications, and non-US citizens, like Canadians, are usually unemployable in that field as a security precaution. If this still seems fruitful, why not adjust your cirriculum to match the demand you see right now?
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Maybe the flash is to record the last three days of accelerometer usage, so if you break it the repair guy will know you threw it against the wall in frustration ;)
And Hurd has been working on a microkernel approach for the last... twenty years. Seems some designs lend better to distributed development than others. Or perhaps it's merely a matter of organizations, with Cathedral central designs underperforming Bazaar like organizations.
If joe wants to play his mp3s, he'll need to take it up with the people asking for cold hard cash for the privledge of listening to his music. This is what happens when Joe User allows the people who disrespect intellectual property entirely (aka The Scene) dictate technological choices.
Enabling mp3 support could hurt them in a number of very real senses. If they choose to purchase a licscence for every user (and subsequent user as possible under the GPL) they'd be out serious dough. If they choose to distribute such software without paying, they've exposed themselves to legal liability above that cost. If they use the recently created legal gstreamer-mp3 plugin, they cannot fully comply with the spirit of Open Source and the GPL. And by supporting mp3 they also implicitly support software patents.
It's unfortunate that this problem exists, and it's all because a piracy group or two started releasing mp3s to the public, instead of carefully investigating and developing their own solution. Essentially, the public has bought into disreguarding intellectual property and they'll have to dig themselves out of this mess one way or another eventually. I think the current RestrictedFormats system is burying one's head in the sand and won't solve any problems in the long run.
The only good news here is that the first of the mp3 patents (and only?) is expected to expire in 2010. But even then, the argument only shifts from how awful it is that mp3s don't work to how awful h264 playback is, and why various movie files people have don't play on Ubuntu.
Slow. While CVS isn't the fastest animal, I found some actions in Subversion even slower. And sometimes Subclipse just leaves you waiting up to tens of seconds when for example a conflict is detected. After posting on the excellent Subclipse mailing list, the problem was acknowledged. A few days later, a release was available through the Eclipse update screens which fixed this bug.
Actually, I think this is more something with eclipse or the plugin than subversion itself. The command line tools seem quite fast, but even with the latest updates, the damn thing's slow. It also chews through a ton of objects, so much so that I sometimes encounter thrashing. But a far more important bug in my view is that apparently drag and dropping directories in your project may not be reflected appropriately in SVN, resulting in your commit being screwy and updating pulling back in the directory you wanted moved.
Definitely, subclipse isn't as fully integrated as CVS is. Hopefully it will be able to catch up soon and make the nessecary improvements.
Ah yes, modern RPGs couldn't be further from their origins. Playing with story, ie roleplaying, is largely missing from modern games. I don't believe that adding "plot" and "storyline" fixes the problem. The goal here should be allow the player to play with plot and storyline, rather than ensuring that certain things "happen" to your "character." In a way, I agree with Ebert. You can't have true authorship from the creator and true roleplaying games at the same time. I suspect experienced DMs understand this as well. Moreover, why do people play D&D? To assume one of a set of fairly cliched roles, or to crawl through a maze slaying monsters and working as a team to accomplish a goal? I suggest that the length of the rulebook dedicated to combat encodes an answer.
What a silly progression. Games aren't nessecarily stories. PacMan was no less a classic for it's shallow plot, nor Tetris less addictive. I'd much rather see them focus on innovative gameplay than improving the plotline in "The next epic quest where a lone boy finds some friends and saves the world." It's a lost cause; if you seek a story, read a book, watch a show. Games are not storytelling.
The primary reponsibility of an engineer is to know what happens when things go wrong and plan for them.
In that reguard, this post was absurd. While the medical costs of coal miners and oil rig workers is high, the risks for everyone else in coal generated and gasoline power and is mostly limited to accidental suffication from car exhaust and climate change. Labelling the well known medical dangers of a gas powered car anywhere near the long term effects of strontium is the "crazy" part, sir.
You ever see a car explode on impact? I haven't. The worst I've seen is when a F1 driver took off before his gas line was detached, resulting in a firey spray, a short burn off on gasoline on the car, and a couple of poor burn victims. The ER people were fine, most of the driver's crew was okay. The crew in the next pit over was fine. The crew in that station on the next race suffered on ill effects. Gasoline mostly doesn't explode. Only when you've refined it with a good mixture of oxygen and gasoline mist does it even come close.
Contrast this with what happens when you put substantial fissile material in a car. Strontium is dangerous because it's chemically similar to Calcium (hence the bone cancer stuff - it replaces calcium in your bones then decays). If any of this leaks out in a collision, the driver and passengers suffer the usual impact trauma, and instead of the somewhat rare likelyhood of fire, you're now threatened with an invisible specter. Moreover, emergency response crews are subjected to the same stuff, and unless it's cleaned up, the site remains contaminated with the stuff, and seeps into the groundwater as rains come in. And god forbid these things end up in the creek bed like idiots with worn tires try. To quantify these potential social costs as "all but free" is ludicrious, and the implicit suggestion that this would be cheaper than gasoline systems simply takes the cake.
A good number of my local LUG members are "IT guys" that support multiple small businesses in the manner described above. Being in the business requires supporting Windows, but has nothing to do with liking it. And even something close to "Scenario 1" has come up occasionally. For example, an optometrist had an outdated install of SuSE on his desktop. Unfortunately, I can't give you any information on how many of their clients find Linux acceptable for their needs. Especially with medium sized businesses, there are often software and networks that run only on Windows and are essentially required to maintain their business partners.
The google map of enterprises looked similar at a high level, but when you zoom in on silicon valley, you find it places a TON of blips there, not 3. If you want to avoid that and examine the Debian Developer locations, I suggest this map.
Things you'll notice is that there's still a good cluster in Silicon Valley, but there's also a good cluster in Boston, and the seemingly huge list of European locations isn't quite so huge, there's just more cities with less people. Most interestingly, there's very few Russian participants, despite there being plenty of talented software developers. Finally, the largest Debian developer area is probably Tokyo.
Ah, most with such High FICOs are generally well off enough that should we choose to purchase such a mac, we don't have to take out a loan to do so. I think their financing is either an attempt to establish/reinforce their image as a luxury item (you can't afford this!), or an opportunity to cash in on the already existing need to be seen with something expensive.
I'll believe that sales pitch when the weapon manufacturers remove batteries from their mines, and give those mines to their own children to play with.
And they should also earn the title of "Coolest Parent on the Block EVER!"
Price is determined by both supply and demand. On the supply side, there's a reason a retailer is willing to accomodate the group: it's a lot of sales at once. Because it's more efficient, the cost to the retailer should go down. On the demand side, it also fights many of the retailer tactics to improve their margins: loss leader items are designed to bring people into the store. You come in to buy a new CD cheap, and leave with a new car stereo system. They're counting on consumers not spending time researching all their options and visiting other stores.
Realistically, there's already concepts in the american market like this. For example, retailers themselvse purchase from wholesale the product you want, and use volume to get discounts; the difference is they don't share all the profits with you. But the more competitors a given retail outfit has, the more they'll share with you. So if you want to try this, make sure to hit up a Circuit City within a 5 minute drive of a mall and a Best Buy.
I partly wonder what the hell you could buy that a retailer would have 500 of on hand. Or even 100. Food? The margins are already quite thin there; you can't negotiate a deal on that. Cars? Possibly. Electronics? That's what they were buying in story, mostly. My personal favorite: apartments? Only in China would you find that much free occupancy, and bargining is already built into the apartment rent game.
Instead, I suspect the real reason this wouldn't happen in the states is that the people who organize it would negotiate a volume discount and keep a bit of it for themselves. Sort of like what already happens with Sam's Club and Costco. I shudder to think what would happen if it did become acceptable in the US: astroturf groups paid for by retailers to solicit such group bargining.
I'm not sure how that post is "Funny," but the things modern static analysis are typically written to catch are concurrency problems. Java isn't quite plagued as much by the incorrect usage of pointers in C that inspired the creation of lint, but multithreading code is still dangerous and difficult to get right. At the very least, these things are usually quite self-sufficient; you'd be a fool to turn them down a daily generated report even if it doesn't catch EVERY potential pitfall.
iSuppli can calculate based on advertised prices from manufacturers, but Apple has easily negotiated special high volume deals. In fact, I believe the original iPod was one of the first microdrives and Apple landed an exclusive contract for them.
So if what if I run an establishement that prohibits smoking, but the smokers club next door requires it? If there's any drift of smoke from one to the other, doesn't this cause problems? There's a cost to relocating my establishment elsewhere, and if most people agree that "next to the smokers club" is a bad location, it will have a negative impact on my property's value.
Of course, these days they rely on highly sophisticated Computer Equipment. They'll willfully sign off on a design made with a tool bundled with a "NO LIABILITY IF WE TOTALLY FUCK UP" EULA, and have relatively little understanding of what's going on or how floating point errors accumulate. And god forbid the system they engineer contain a computer component. How can you ethically sign off on such a device without spending another 4 years in college learning proper software testing and construction techniques?
Moreover, there ARE systems these days with a significant software component, where human lives hang in the balance. The best reason software engineers don't sign up for that is that the government doesn't provide for it. Despite people asking for it. Despite there already being a huge industrial exemption leading to only 15 percent of EEs to go to acquire a PE. I work in a research lab designing prototype medical devices to measure things like pulse. If these designs become adapted for public use, who do you think should sign off on them?
And it's so legit it now gives a blank page to firefox.
Kuro5hin runs a community based system for writing. These days it's mostly oil conspiracy and other political nonsense, but this situation probably arose after personal blogs became popular. Anyways, it's got a lot of extra features that make sense for internet collaboration, so you'd have to check it out to make sure it makes sense for your organization. I'm sure some of them make some good sense, like an editing mode where others can make suggestions for improvement, and some of the others might need more tweaking. Obviously you want some editorial control over your site, so the democratic decisions to post or not post an article are probably inadaquate for your group.
Of course, MEPIS is a one man commercial affair. It's one guy who decided to try making a profit at this. And it requires the upstream to offer b). b) is more than a publicly available FTP. B requires you to offer the source code to ALL comers for 3 years. For every binary version you release under the GPL. So its no surprise that this subsection is rarely followed, and you might see if the GPL 3 still includes this.
But I can't see any commercial distribution refusing to offer source code to unmodified binaries in direct contradiction to the GPL for very long. At the very least, they should be able to accomodate a request via the same route they had intended the recipient to use.
Justin
Not that it excuses the kind of CYA mentality, but certain plenty of religious affilitated image conscious schools require their athletes sign a code of conduct, like no drinking in public, etc, as a condition of recieving the scholarship. Apparently Kent State believes these sorts of ties between conduct and finance aren't enough to prevent it from being known that their athletes aren't infalliable supermen who excel in athletic, academic and moral standing, and wishes to add what is essentially an NDA to their contract.
Something here is broken. Maybe it's that Universities, institutes of higher education, are resorting to sporting events as a recruiting campaign. Maybe it's the number of schools pitting athletes against each other such that success requires dedication to the exclusion of personal growth. Maybe it's students, for being so vain as to photograph themselves in comprimising situations, and think that the public Internet is a suitable place to distribute these to close friends and strangers alike. Maybe it's you and me for watching the whole thing. But lets face it, there's no Rose Bowl for the most wholesome two teams in the nation. The Final Four aren't the four people left at the party who refused to hook up with drunken coeds.
Practical clothes can be churned out by machines in a matter of seconds, if we set them up and tell them to do it, yet much of what is worn in the so-called first world is made by hand by people leaving in poverty conditions in less-developed countries.
Would it be much better if we just built the machines and leave these people unemployed? You want to live in a world where everyone gives a thirsty man a drink, but I think you give human nature too much credit. But the world isn't lost simply because we lack total compassion; if you can give a thirsty man a drink and make a profit, the only places you'd find thirsty people are dictatorships with no interest anything but the maintaince of their own power.
Refusing to support people who employ those people is akin to enforcing a permanent beggar class. The kernel of your argument appears to be "it's not fair!" I've heard that from a number of children.
in an environment where Latin is taught alongside math, your users and developers are sharper and more humane.
Which clearly explains the rise of the largest violent empire the West had ever known: the Roman Empire.
Heh, we've got a meg of cache too. Sometimes more. But if there's any coherency at all, caching will work just fine on the relevant part of that 1M of code.
Firstly, you're looking in exactly the wrong order. If you were looking for a research assistant, would you ask a student you know, or would you put an ad in the local college paper? Hopefully, you'd choose a student you know. You have a good idea of who they are, their work ethic, etc. And you won't have to somehow sort through the flood of applications you'd receive in a newspaper posting. So a newspaper is exactly the last place to look for most jobs, unless the employer is hoping to find the cheapest among several qualified applicatants. I don't believe Intel actually places ads in papers; some places prefer that you take interest in their company and seek them out instead. If you want to match your cirriculum to employers needs, I'd hope your "institute" has a few industry connections, since this is often a good avenue to your students actually getting a job. These are the people you need to talk to.
Secondly, 2 years training to design microprocessors? What exactly would they be doing, that only takes two years to go from high school education, to mastered enough to be productive? Programming microcontroller devices, maybe. Designing them in today's market takes a knowledge of what's been done in the past, and ways one might improve them. The industry is simply too competitive to accept the kinds of mistakes and inefficiencies a novice would make when multiplied by a large scale production run. A 4 year degree is a good start, nothing more. Many of the largest chip design places have internal education to address academic cirriculum shortcomings. These would also be good people to talk to.
Finally, what do you think qualifies as a distinction between a microcontroller and an embedded system? I'd say not much. 386's are being used more often now, in places where DOS or Linux can do far more than a PIC traditionally does. And if you're seeing so many postings for embedded systems, remember that a number of these projects are likely for US military applications, and non-US citizens, like Canadians, are usually unemployable in that field as a security precaution. If this still seems fruitful, why not adjust your cirriculum to match the demand you see right now?