I have worked places in IT and otherwise and have foudn that this phenomena is strongly related to how your boss views your maturity level. Some of the most technically apt people that I know are immature. I wouldn't listen to them about many technical things because of it. Its not age, per se, but maturity and competence that people listen to. Competence by itself leads to rash choices many times. You need to temper many idea and possiblities with the interpersonal skills to convice and back them.
Solution to this problem: I have found that you should try to be very realistic, very upfront, and assertive at the same time. Don't embarass people, but call them on things when its wrong. And be very hard on yourself. You have to be twice as good as somone who is 30. Then you might turn out like another one of my aquiantences. He is the head developer of a 30 person firm...his boss is in his mid 30's, and he is 19.
NOT for PC CPU's...but open hardware has promise.
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I think that the real use of this will be to make small embedded devices. I can imagine programming a FPGA with the java virtual machine and a couple of objects to represent the pins, and then you have a super simple platform for embedded device control. These processors are little, relatively slow...etc..just like FPGA's and stuff are.
Designing a custom chip or two would be cool...not having to go out and buy new hardware whenever I want to experiment with a new chip, just having to download to the new spec when I would like to use a different design would be completely awesome.
Also I could see a PCI board that you could have about 50/100/200 of the little guys on it (I know that they won't fit now...but i bet they would start if hardware open source took off.). Or more. I see wonderful experiments in parrallel processing to come from this. Or to implement complex hardware devcies that don't work well in software. Hardware involves a lot of work...and alot of knowlegde...but more people will get that knowlege the more that they can start to do with it.
TINI boards are bringing more people into embedded programming because its so much easier to do simple things. I can't even begin to imagine all the stuff that would come out of cheap and extra usable open source hardware.
The movie is too long, and that makes it horrible. You keep checking your watch. Some comments feel like _I_ fought a drug war" and "So I know your watch says 1:30, but is that A.M or P.M." Predictable in too many places too.
Why is everyone so convinced that Linux has to be prettied up, promoted, and made palatable to the masses?
Have you ever seen what computers look like in movies? Have you ever seen a very intelligent PhD be scared to death of a console? Intimdataion Factor is a BIG part of computers not being used by people. I think Mac's are much less intimidating then Windows or Linux because they hide all that information. I could get my grandmother using linux for all the things she uses a computer for, except so much of the programmer-oriented information that is presented to you is scary to her. I think that screens like this are GREAT! But I think that they need to be customizable. For instance, I wouldn't mind if I could stick a "Progress Meter" on the top of the screen and still let all the normal scripts go by.
Jason,
Since your accident, what have you noticed as far as a change in your priorities goes? I am curious with respect to your "real job" versus private research interests (e.g. PPCLinux) versus your family versus the things that you have been putting off in your life. What other changes have you seen in yourself as far as attitudes towards what sucess really is, and what you want to do with the rest of your life?
3) If it was government policy to use a specific *nix, one or many (ie OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, whichever was most appropriate for the particular task), then numerous engineers and scientists could be utilized to strengthen weak areas and improve already effective areas. In effect what would be happening is a re-conribution of code back into the main source trees of each distribution, or flavour. <br><p>
The NSA did this very recently...a story about it <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/22/ 0157229&mode=flat"> was posted on slashdot</a>. A person more industrous then I might look it up for you;).
The most effective, most used, and most trusted security measures are locks, guards, vigilance, and effort. I don't care if you run triple-encrpyted, Extra-Tasty Secure BSD/Linux/WinNT..etc, if they have got to the computer, you are, for the most part, screwed.
That's why computers with secret/confidential/top secret data are physically locked up, and physically isolated from the internet. Places like the NSA run on a system where if an unauthorized person is in the room, flashing lights go off so you don't talk about secret things. You get layed out on the ground and searched if you have a badge that says "I need an escort" and you don't have an escort. These sorts of measures are what keeps us safe on a national security standpoint.
Insiders (i.e spies) in the Gov't are always going to be able to get to the data, no how many retinal/finger/rectal scans you require. Computers are not really a big issue. Sure, stuff like data left over on hard drives after you've "emptied the trash" used to be a problem. But that sort of thing has been covered now. People, as always, are STILL the only big security hole.
I am speaking from personal experience here. I work for a federal contractor that deals in information that requires a clearance.
I think that computer security issues apply much more to the real world then the military. But the rest of the government, well, that worries me too. And its still the people that worry me rather then the computers. A smart person with windows 95 is more secure then a stupid one with the most secure OS.
Not from what I have learned in my computer classes at Georgia Tech (from Prof. Mark Guzdial). The reason that Macs are used is that since there is no command line by default, that its much harder to do something interesting (or dangerous) if you DO get in.
I think that this makes an excellent argument for making it a preprocessor, that is run when groups has changed, or when a user is added (in case there are rules like:[ x: !(@students) ])
If they caught him writing an email that he sends, doesn't that count as communications?
Either Sega or Sony has licenced even more...
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In my objects and design class that I took this summer at Georgia Tech, the professor told us that either Sony or Sega (I think Sony, but I am not sure) has licensed the Squeak programming language for their game platform. Since you are not really writing standalone entities when you do this but really adding onto a OS-like image, he seemed to think any game you wrote would also fall under that license
His take on it was that since Disney (The chief developers of the language, a modern, free implementation of smalltalk, which is really owned by Apple, but is cross-platform) is the one who asked for the licence, that Sony (or Sega) just gave it to them without really paying attention to what exactly Squeak is. Anyone know if its the Playstation or the Dreamcast that this license was granted for?
At Georgia Tech, anything you while a student is Georgia Tech Property, unless another company owns the work (Like part time jobs or internships).
One idea that has been floating around tech is that we should get a group of students together and start a Corperation that anyone can use to shelter their personal code away from the Institute.
I have heard of cases where people have written some pretty impessive stuff then have had everything to do with the project seized by the Institute upon graduation.
Anyone heard of schemes that have worked similar to the Corperation idea?
I go to Georgia Tech (who sent the attorneys a nice b!tchslap of a letter, refusing to filter out napster). Our information technology center is understaffed, and doesn't properly configure much of its software until enough users complain. I don't blame them, I just think that they need more people.
I think that your website ban could either be from a few things:
1.There being a miscomunication between your adminstration and your IT department
2.Your IT department is like ours and just didn't configure the filter right
3.The software they use is really simple and just blocks eveything from napster.com.
Ask your IT department if it is intentional that they are blocking the web site, and if it is, start bellowing that the schools federal funding should be revoked due to blockage of the free press(the napster site). I suggest the school newspaper as a good place to start, and your local congressman/ state representative too (you'd be surprised how well people like that respond to individual requests that can get them lots of press, like this one). Alumni that work in the technology field or Media are also good people to ask to talk to the school. Your Alumni association will probbably help you find this type of person (if you don't tell them why you want them).
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Solution to this problem: I have found that you should try to be very realistic, very upfront, and assertive at the same time. Don't embarass people, but call them on things when its wrong. And be very hard on yourself. You have to be twice as good as somone who is 30. Then you might turn out like another one of my aquiantences. He is the head developer of a 30 person firm...his boss is in his mid 30's, and he is 19.
Designing a custom chip or two would be cool...not having to go out and buy new hardware whenever I want to experiment with a new chip, just having to download to the new spec when I would like to use a different design would be completely awesome.
Also I could see a PCI board that you could have about 50/100/200 of the little guys on it (I know that they won't fit now...but i bet they would start if hardware open source took off.). Or more. I see wonderful experiments in parrallel processing to come from this. Or to implement complex hardware devcies that don't work well in software. Hardware involves a lot of work...and alot of knowlegde...but more people will get that knowlege the more that they can start to do with it.
TINI boards are bringing more people into embedded programming because its so much easier to do simple things. I can't even begin to imagine all the stuff that would come out of cheap and extra usable open source hardware.
The movie is too long, and that makes it horrible. You keep checking your watch. Some comments feel like _I_ fought a drug war" and "So I know your watch says 1:30, but is that A.M or P.M." Predictable in too many places too.
Why is everyone so convinced that Linux has to be prettied up, promoted, and made palatable to the masses?
Have you ever seen what computers look like in movies? Have you ever seen a very intelligent PhD be scared to death of a console? Intimdataion Factor is a BIG part of computers not being used by people. I think Mac's are much less intimidating then Windows or Linux because they hide all that information. I could get my grandmother using linux for all the things she uses a computer for, except so much of the programmer-oriented information that is presented to you is scary to her. I think that screens like this are GREAT! But I think that they need to be customizable. For instance, I wouldn't mind if I could stick a "Progress Meter" on the top of the screen and still let all the normal scripts go by.
Jason,
Since your accident, what have you noticed as far as a change in your priorities goes? I am curious with respect to your "real job" versus private research interests (e.g. PPCLinux) versus your family versus the things that you have been putting off in your life. What other changes have you seen in yourself as far as attitudes towards what sucess really is, and what you want to do with the rest of your life?
3) If it was government policy to use a specific *nix, one or many (ie OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, whichever was most appropriate for the particular task), then numerous engineers and scientists could be utilized to strengthen weak areas and improve already effective areas. In effect what would be happening is a re-conribution of code back into the main source trees of each distribution, or flavour./ 0157229&mode=flat"> was posted on slashdot</a>. A person more industrous then I might look it up for you ;).
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The NSA did this very recently...a story about it <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/22
The most effective, most used, and most trusted security measures are locks, guards, vigilance, and effort. I don't care if you run triple-encrpyted, Extra-Tasty Secure BSD/Linux/WinNT..etc, if they have got to the computer, you are, for the most part, screwed.
That's why computers with secret/confidential/top secret data are physically locked up, and physically isolated from the internet. Places like the NSA run on a system where if an unauthorized person is in the room, flashing lights go off so you don't talk about secret things. You get layed out on the ground and searched if you have a badge that says "I need an escort" and you don't have an escort. These sorts of measures are what keeps us safe on a national security standpoint.
Insiders (i.e spies) in the Gov't are always going to be able to get to the data, no how many retinal/finger/rectal scans you require. Computers are not really a big issue. Sure, stuff like data left over on hard drives after you've "emptied the trash" used to be a problem. But that sort of thing has been covered now. People, as always, are STILL the only big security hole.
I am speaking from personal experience here. I work for a federal contractor that deals in information that requires a clearance.
I think that computer security issues apply much more to the real world then the military. But the rest of the government, well, that worries me too. And its still the people that worry me rather then the computers. A smart person with windows 95 is more secure then a stupid one with the most secure OS.
Not from what I have learned in my computer classes at Georgia Tech (from Prof. Mark Guzdial). The reason that Macs are used is that since there is no command line by default, that its much harder to do something interesting (or dangerous) if you DO get in.
Its portable, not going away, its been around a long time, and no one is screwing around with the spec, adding new and undocumented features.
I think that this makes an excellent argument for making it a preprocessor, that is run when groups has changed, or when a user is added (in case there are rules like:[ x: !(@students) ])
You don't need delete...
d: @students + @faculty - bleahy
could be expresed with (assuming each user is a set of herself alone):
d: (@students + @faculty) * (!bleahy)
If they caught him writing an email that he sends, doesn't that count as communications?
In my objects and design class that I took this summer at Georgia Tech, the professor told us that either Sony or Sega (I think Sony, but I am not sure) has licensed the Squeak programming language for their game platform. Since you are not really writing standalone entities when you do this but really adding onto a OS-like image, he seemed to think any game you wrote would also fall under that license
His take on it was that since Disney (The chief developers of the language, a modern, free implementation of smalltalk, which is really owned by Apple, but is cross-platform) is the one who asked for the licence, that Sony (or Sega) just gave it to them without really paying attention to what exactly Squeak is. Anyone know if its the Playstation or the Dreamcast that this license was granted for?
--gte910h
At Georgia Tech, anything you while a student is Georgia Tech Property, unless another company owns the work (Like part time jobs or internships).
One idea that has been floating around tech is that we should get a group of students together and start a Corperation that anyone can use to shelter their personal code away from the Institute.
I have heard of cases where people have written some pretty impessive stuff then have had everything to do with the project seized by the Institute upon graduation.
Anyone heard of schemes that have worked similar to the Corperation idea?
I go to Georgia Tech (who sent the attorneys a nice b!tchslap of a letter, refusing to filter out napster). Our information technology center is understaffed, and doesn't properly configure much of its software until enough users complain. I don't blame them, I just think that they need more people. I think that your website ban could either be from a few things: 1.There being a miscomunication between your adminstration and your IT department 2.Your IT department is like ours and just didn't configure the filter right 3.The software they use is really simple and just blocks eveything from napster.com. Ask your IT department if it is intentional that they are blocking the web site, and if it is, start bellowing that the schools federal funding should be revoked due to blockage of the free press(the napster site). I suggest the school newspaper as a good place to start, and your local congressman/ state representative too (you'd be surprised how well people like that respond to individual requests that can get them lots of press, like this one). Alumni that work in the technology field or Media are also good people to ask to talk to the school. Your Alumni association will probbably help you find this type of person (if you don't tell them why you want them).