UC Berkeley's lectures, the ones that do get recorded, had been available online for years. Cool stuff, but for most part, the number of recorded lectures is very limited.
1. If differential pricing becomes a common practice, I think it will be a blow to America in the long run. If anything, I think this country graduates too few engineers and scientists. We need more people who spend years in college learning real world skills, how to produce value. I am not dissing humanities and social sciences here. However, I do think that we have too many people in US colleges studying social sciences, such as political science, and humanities. Most of them end up taking vanilla, dead end administrative jobs that pay half of what an engineering or science graduate can make. (Of course. What did you expect? that's about what those studies are worth in real world). The biggest reason for this is America's mediocre system of secondary education that graduates hordes of students who barely know math and are afraid of pursuing majors involving any "hard" subjects from the beginning. Raising tuition for such majors will discourage people from getting into engineering even more.
2. The problem with the runaway salaries of the business school professors was created by the business schools themselves. We know that business PhDs can get very good jobs outside of the academia but that's only a part of problem. The real problem is that the supply of business school professors is very tight. What would you expect when business schools at large research universities produce so few business PhDs? Big universities like Purdue, Michigan State, or University of Colorado at Boulder have business-related departments (such as finance or accounting) that employ dozens of professors, yet they admit about 2 doctoral student per year, and even less of those graduate 4-6 year down the road. In the end, they pay 130-140K to a fresh assistant professor. Compare this to the field of economics. Large universities admit 15-25 doctoral students of economics per year and usually at least a half of them finish the degree. The starting salary of an economics professor is about $85K.
It is well known that running a state-of-art foundry efficiently requires ginormous production volumes, so most semiconductor companies go fabless these days. However, if a company like AMD can't afford its own fab, then Intel might have a huge advantage here and we might see less competition in the microprocessor market from now. Just look at Sun's experience. Sun Microsystems had been historically fabless. Their newest SPARC processors were being fabricated primarily by Texas Instruments, and Texas Instruments has pretty much ruined Sun's ability to compete with Intel on CPU speed because it often took TI years to start producing a new Sun chip in significant numbers. I remember how Sun's introduction of UltraSPARC III was the longest and most painful CPU rollout ever. It took them something like three or four years to replace the major UltraSPARC II products.
All you need do is pick on the companies rolling in money and hike their tax rate up a bit, then share the money back out to the states, or have a war in the middle east, whatever.
You didn't need to come back to confirm being a complete idiot with your head stuck up your orifice.
Because states need to raise revenue for the very services that you consume. Law enforcement agencies, state universities, roads, and other public services do not just come out of air, you know.
Why make the tax system more complicated? Sales tax is a sales tax. You pay it for getting a haircut, gas, groceries, and whatnot. Why should bandwidth be treated differently?
If you look at Oswald's history he was all over the place...defecting to the Soviet Union when he was 19, just 3 days after being discharged from the Marines...that has CIA written all over it.
How does that disprove the lone gunman theory? After reading Oswald's biography, I am actually pretty much convinced that Oswald was a real nut and lunatic and very capable of being a lone maniac who shot the president.
You are right, this has been studied. IT and EE H-1Bs on average earn significantly less than people employed in the same occupations. This is true even when you control for geographic locations and occupation cathegories (as narrow as the OES survey will allow). Here is a link to the only such study that I am aware of:
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Given the traffic on the mailing lists, I would say yes, a whole lot of people are using it. In my organization, all desktops and secondary servers run CentOS. We keep RHEL on a few critical servers just for the sake of our (sysadmin) jobs.
So, if computer science is dead, then who is going to develop the "accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day" that article's author mentions?
Seriously though, this is weird. How come we don't see posts every other week about how common university majors such as english, political science, mathematics, or say classics are dead, presumably because they don't teach any real world job skills. If there are reasons for those majors to exist, then please explain what's wrong with CS which actually does teach along the way a lot of stuff that'd directly applicable in real job settings?
If computer science is dead, then how come the fresh graduates from the top CS departments are being snatched away before they even graduate by a variety of companies, ranging from 10-person startups all the way up to Google, Microsoft, HP, and IBM? How many DeVry's graduates do you see working in those companies vs. people who had format CS training?
ESR's public switch away from Fedora hopefully will shed some light on some problems with Fedora project and related distributions. As a system administrator who supports labs with Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS workstations, I can tell you that one of the most annoying things about adapting a new version of one if these distributions is the fact that neither mplayer nor the video codecs are provided. This is somewhat mitigated by projects like freshrpms on Fedora Core, but RHEL and CentOS users don't have such an alternative as far as I know. My solution is to grab the source RPM packages from freshrpms repositories and rebuild them on RHEL. This doesn't always work well as the newer versions of mplayer and xine (plus two dozents of libraries that they depend on), depend on the newer version of libraries that are present only in the latest Fedora Core distributions (since there is quite a lag because RHEL is updated almost once in two years). It would be great if RedHat did something about this.
It's like saying that the price of the Pentium 3 CPU has come down significantly since they were introduced. It cost $600 a peice, and that was in year 1999 dollars!
This situations in Ukraine, Iran, and Russia are very very different, and it is wrong to generalize by saying that the right thing to do for the Russian expats is ALSO to badmouth their government. The comparison with Iran is completely ridiculous. However, even Russian vs. Ukrainian politics are very different. Ukraine ethnically is a very divided country. About 50% living there are Russians (most of whom live on portions of Ukrainian land that they believe was unfairly assigned to Ukraine by USSR in 50s), and they want close ties with Russia. The rest are fervent Ukrainian nationalists who hate Russia and Russians. You will hear different opinions on Ukraine depending on who you talk to and on who happens to be in the office there today.
Do 80% of Russians approve of him, or do 80% of Russians fear speaking out against him?
Oh please. As someone who had lived in Russia and who still follows the developments in Russia, I can tell you: yes, they want him. And there are plenty of ways of speaking against Putin, and many people do.
Who cares about the fact that so many corporate PCs are not ready to run Vista? Have you worked in a large IT department? Many of them take _years_ to roll a new version of an operating system on the users' desktops, be it Windows or some sort of Unix. I work at a large public university, and Vista hasn't even been on most of IT department radars because there are more important things to worry about right now. I guess that it will take at least a year before the staff feels comfortable with the new OS to start ordering new PCs with Vista pre-installed. By the time they decide to upgrade the OS, most of the problematic PC will have been replaced by then.
This is just absurd. I guess there exist good reasons to block p2p (bandwidth issues, copyrights, potential legal problems, etc) but what's with the other sites? Of course this is sensorship. This must be one of those small religious schools whose administrators can't stand the thought that the campus network can be used to download a picture of someone's boob.
I don't see many Windows servers or desktops being replaced with RedHat at work. However, I see many old Unix installations (Sun and others) being replaced with x86 systems running RHEL or CentOS.
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That murder had nothing to do with the victims spam activities:
http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7845&IBLOCK_ID=35
UC Berkeley's lectures, the ones that do get recorded, had been available online for years. Cool stuff, but for most part, the number of recorded lectures is very limited.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
1. If differential pricing becomes a common practice, I think it will be a blow to America in the long run. If anything, I think this country graduates too few engineers and scientists. We need more people who spend years in college learning real world skills, how to produce value. I am not dissing humanities and social sciences here. However, I do think that we have too many people in US colleges studying social sciences, such as political science, and humanities. Most of them end up taking vanilla, dead end administrative jobs that pay half of what an engineering or science graduate can make. (Of course. What did you expect? that's about what those studies are worth in real world). The biggest reason for this is America's mediocre system of secondary education that graduates hordes of students who barely know math and are afraid of pursuing majors involving any "hard" subjects from the beginning. Raising tuition for such majors will discourage people from getting into engineering even more.
2. The problem with the runaway salaries of the business school professors was created by the business schools themselves. We know that business PhDs can get very good jobs outside of the academia but that's only a part of problem. The real problem is that the supply of business school professors is very tight. What would you expect when business schools at large research universities produce so few business PhDs? Big universities like Purdue, Michigan State, or University of Colorado at Boulder have business-related departments (such as finance or accounting) that employ dozens of professors, yet they admit about 2 doctoral student per year, and even less of those graduate 4-6 year down the road. In the end, they pay 130-140K to a fresh assistant professor. Compare this to the field of economics. Large universities admit 15-25 doctoral students of economics per year and usually at least a half of them finish the degree. The starting salary of an economics professor is about $85K.
It is well known that running a state-of-art foundry efficiently requires ginormous production volumes, so most semiconductor companies go fabless these days. However, if a company like AMD can't afford its own fab, then Intel might have a huge advantage here and we might see less competition in the microprocessor market from now. Just look at Sun's experience. Sun Microsystems had been historically fabless. Their newest SPARC processors were being fabricated primarily by Texas Instruments, and Texas Instruments has pretty much ruined Sun's ability to compete with Intel on CPU speed because it often took TI years to start producing a new Sun chip in significant numbers. I remember how Sun's introduction of UltraSPARC III was the longest and most painful CPU rollout ever. It took them something like three or four years to replace the major UltraSPARC II products.
All you need do is pick on the companies rolling in money and hike their tax rate up a bit, then share the money back out to the states, or have a war in the middle east, whatever.
You didn't need to come back to confirm being a complete idiot with your head stuck up your orifice.
Because states need to raise revenue for the very services that you consume. Law enforcement agencies, state universities, roads, and other public services do not just come out of air, you know.
Why make the tax system more complicated? Sales tax is a sales tax. You pay it for getting a haircut, gas, groceries, and whatnot. Why should bandwidth be treated differently?
If you look at Oswald's history he was all over the place...defecting to the Soviet Union when he was 19, just 3 days after being discharged from the Marines...that has CIA written all over it.
How does that disprove the lone gunman theory? After reading Oswald's biography, I am actually pretty much convinced that Oswald was a real nut and lunatic and very capable of being a lone maniac who shot the president.
You are right, this has been studied. IT and EE H-1Bs on average earn significantly less than people employed in the same occupations. This is true even when you control for geographic locations and occupation cathegories (as narrow as the OES survey will allow). Here is a link to the only such study that I am aware of:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1305.html
This probably means that they still have decade old routers and shared hubs which probably don't even work at 100Mbps.
Ah! A rich geek's dream cum true!
That's my guess.
Given the traffic on the mailing lists, I would say yes, a whole lot of people are using it. In my organization, all desktops and secondary servers run CentOS. We keep RHEL on a few critical servers just for the sake of our (sysadmin) jobs.
If RedHat regarded CentOS as a part of its family, it wouldn't be so adamant about the RedHat trademark issue.
So, if computer science is dead, then who is going to develop the "accounting packages, enterprise resource packages, customer relationship management systems are the order of the day" that article's author mentions?
Seriously though, this is weird. How come we don't see posts every other week about how common university majors such as english, political science, mathematics, or say classics are dead, presumably because they don't teach any real world job skills. If there are reasons for those majors to exist, then please explain what's wrong with CS which actually does teach along the way a lot of stuff that'd directly applicable in real job settings?
If computer science is dead, then how come the fresh graduates from the top CS departments are being snatched away before they even graduate by a variety of companies, ranging from 10-person startups all the way up to Google, Microsoft, HP, and IBM? How many DeVry's graduates do you see working in those companies vs. people who had format CS training?
ESR's public switch away from Fedora hopefully will shed some light on some problems with Fedora project and related distributions. As a system administrator who supports labs with Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS workstations, I can tell you that one of the most annoying things about adapting a new version of one if these distributions is the fact that neither mplayer nor the video codecs are provided. This is somewhat mitigated by projects like freshrpms on Fedora Core, but RHEL and CentOS users don't have such an alternative as far as I know. My solution is to grab the source RPM packages from freshrpms repositories and rebuild them on RHEL. This doesn't always work well as the newer versions of mplayer and xine (plus two dozents of libraries that they depend on), depend on the newer version of libraries that are present only in the latest Fedora Core distributions (since there is quite a lag because RHEL is updated almost once in two years). It would be great if RedHat did something about this.
I'd finally go outside and breath some fresh air!
It's like saying that the price of the Pentium 3 CPU has come down significantly since they were introduced. It cost $600 a peice, and that was in year 1999 dollars!
This situations in Ukraine, Iran, and Russia are very very different, and it is wrong to generalize by saying that the right thing to do for the Russian expats is ALSO to badmouth their government. The comparison with Iran is completely ridiculous. However, even Russian vs. Ukrainian politics are very different. Ukraine ethnically is a very divided country. About 50% living there are Russians (most of whom live on portions of Ukrainian land that they believe was unfairly assigned to Ukraine by USSR in 50s), and they want close ties with Russia. The rest are fervent Ukrainian nationalists who hate Russia and Russians. You will hear different opinions on Ukraine depending on who you talk to and on who happens to be in the office there today.
Do 80% of Russians approve of him, or do 80% of Russians fear speaking out against him?
Oh please. As someone who had lived in Russia and who still follows the developments in Russia, I can tell you: yes, they want him. And there are plenty of ways of speaking against Putin, and many people do.
Who cares about the fact that so many corporate PCs are not ready to run Vista? Have you worked in a large IT department? Many of them take _years_ to roll a new version of an operating system on the users' desktops, be it Windows or some sort of Unix. I work at a large public university, and Vista hasn't even been on most of IT department radars because there are more important things to worry about right now. I guess that it will take at least a year before the staff feels comfortable with the new OS to start ordering new PCs with Vista pre-installed. By the time they decide to upgrade the OS, most of the problematic PC will have been replaced by then.
Oh joy, I suppose the Solaris version will come only one year after Linux. Hang on folks, we're almost there!
This is just absurd. I guess there exist good reasons to block p2p (bandwidth issues, copyrights, potential legal problems, etc) but what's with the other sites? Of course this is sensorship. This must be one of those small religious schools whose administrators can't stand the thought that the campus network can be used to download a picture of someone's boob.
I don't see many Windows servers or desktops being replaced with RedHat at work. However, I see many old Unix installations (Sun and others) being replaced with x86 systems running RHEL or CentOS.
It seems like the time has come to add a "Death Porn" section to slashdot.