Not at all. Use your own IDE, then cut and paste into theirs when you're happy.
Anyone have any idea on the difficulty of the problems? The language choices suck, but I'm still curious as to what kind of problems they throw at you.
My issue with apple is that I have to go to the top for any kind of flexibility. Give me a Mac Pro enclosure without the pricetag attached to dual xeons.
Provide me with -ONE- peer reviewed article that says that global warming isnt taking place.
Also - I've done some research on this - of the vocal "scientists" that argue against global warming, all but one that I've read about was or is on the payroll of big oil. That one scientist that isnt - argues against everything. He still argues that smoking doesnt cause cancer.
Did it ever occur to anyone that, on average, CEOs create jobs, grow companies, and increase wealth of themselves and others? Evil sons of bitches.
And?... cause I do all these items as well. The difference between a good manager and a crappy manager is a big one, and it applies all the way up the chain of command in a company, but CEO's dont magically create jobs or grow companies. There is no excuse to pay someone over a million dollars in SALARY. In fact, I would think anything more than a half mil would be excessive. -I- create jobs and grow the company. The ideas and descions that come down from the CEO's I've worked with/for have yet to ever strike me as anything other than common sense.
Now, I'm not saying I could be an effective CEO, because I simply dont have the management skills. In my opinion, 98% of what makes a CEO good is their management skill. But! Management skill doth not a multimillion dollar salary entitle.
That CEO does an extrodinary job, give em a bonus. Say, 20% of their salary and a nice 10% raise. That would be the best anyone else could ever hope for. I'd be happier than a pig in shit if someone gave me a $100,000 bonus on top of my half million dollar salary.
Paying seven million dollars PER YEAR for a CEO is downright stupid. At that point, as another poster said, you are really just supporting the "ruling class" mentality. Here comes the marxist in me, but nobody has any realistic use for accumulating that much wealth.
I'm gonna take a stab at this, just because I spend a fair bit of time thinking about how to do this kind of thing. It's hard for me to imagine how google does what it does, and finding a small amount of data in a absolutely massive system spread across thousands of servers... this is an interesting topic to ponder.
I would bet that they manage structured data within the filesystem itself - in fact, i think thats the ONLY way they could do it. I started going into detail in this post, but it started being too long and complicated, so heres the short version.
Combine sets of 20 machines into RAID-like arrays. Think like taking 20 iscsi drives on different machines and RAID'ing them together - except you dont have one machine doing the work - they all do the work.
Muliply that by 50, now you have 50 RAID-like arrays providing you some amount of raw space. Take that, and carve it up into usable volumes, not depending upon the underlying disks to worry about volumes size - spread it over as many arrays or partial arrays, who cares. Carve up volumes -only- based on data type, not based on anything else.
Now, take one volume, make it your primary index. This simply tells you what your other volumes contain. One volume for email, one volume for web, one volume for maps... Your data has structure, you need to be able to find it. So you index -everything-. Your indexes chain into each other, creating indexing volumes where nessecary, but keeping indexes and raw data separate.
Regardless, with this structure you've got a fast, easily expandable filesystem on which you can grow anything.
But then again, I've never written a filesystem. I just dream about having the time.
The great thing about core memory was its tolerance to water. Running into some wierd glitches in your application? Probably a problem with the memory - got dusty or something.
Have you had any problems with mental imbalance, such as bipolar disorder? I'm not trying to be degrading, but that often plays into a belief in God from logical, scientific people.
I personally think that while the educated, intelligent people out there continue to state that they believe in God, organized religion will continue to exist. Real, direct atheism is NESSECARY, however it is very hard to be an atheist in this day and age.
I was raised in a religious home, and I was raised to challenge faith and develop my own relationship with God. And I did - I realized that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for the existance of God. I can accept that Jesus was a real person, and a great teacher in many ways, but I'm sorry, there is no God.
In order to move forward as a society, we must recognize this.
But in relation to the original topic, this cant be expected to change very soon. It is too useful as a means of control, and our politicians, religious leaders and such are too happy to make use of it. What needs to happen in the next hundred years will be (1.) getting control of the population explosion, and (2.) Reducing the dependance on fossil fuels substantially. Our nessecity on establishing off-world self-contained colonies should be a close third.
I'm worried about allowing software on to the network that I can't monitor and disable at will.
And thats exactly why I dont want skype to change. I dont want the ability for my ISP, or any other provider down the line, to be able to block skype. It is my personal long-distance telephone, and I dont doubt that there are plenty of providers out there that would jump at the opportunity to block it.
Imagine that you have just spent the last two years actively using an internet service for your telephone - at free or near-free pricing. You wake up one day, and it doesnt work anymore. You call up your internet provider, who also happens to be a telco, and say "my internet-based-replacement for long distance isnt working anymore".
Blocking P2P traffic is virtually impossible, we all know that.
I would beg to differ - Rogers in canada has been doing quite a good job of blocking all bittorrent traffic, encrypted and nonencrypted. They just recently put into play heuristic pattern matching to catch the encrypted traffic.
Not saying it doesnt suck. People are talking about a class-action suit against rogers.
Try living with real fascism, as my parents did in Cuba for 40 years...
Sorry, but I was under the impression that Cuba was Communist. I realize they are not totally mutually exclusive, one could say that Stalin was far more facist than communist, but he is still generally regarded as a Communist. When I think facism, I think Hilter and Mussolini.
I have to go with 1996-1997. Simply because of Final Fantasy VII. That game revolutionized the industry, made the playstation a true contender, and has haunted my dreams ever since.
Assuming their nickserv handling on the server side is run the same way Bahamut does theirs...
*serv nicknames are generally reserved through Qlines. Qlines can be used to restrict all kinds of pattern-matched nicknames, however they still allow opers to use them - this is quite intentional. If the compromised server allowed people to set up opers, it would have been trivial to oper up, remove the real services from the network, and change your nickname to *serv.
I'm not sure how many networks have picked up on the/nickserv or/msg service@services, but bahamut uses that, and does not accept messages in any other method for services. Bahamut is generally built specifically to handle these types of things.
If freenode was using Bahamut, I'd be interested in talking to them about this. If a freenode admin sees this, drop me an email.
I find this amazing. I produced 3500 lines of developer-tested code in a month, followed with a month of QA. This was in C - no.NET, no easy exception handling. Memory management, linked lists.. and this wasnt badly written code either. It was properly abstracted - have of it went into a shared object, the other half was customizations to other packages to reference that package.
And I'm a fucking systems engineer. I'm not a programmer, I didn't go to university, I'm not paid like a programmer, and I don't want to be a programmer.
I would think 5000 lines in a year would be about a fifth of what a developer should be producing - of real, proper code.
Lines of code may not be the best metric, but speaking so generically, what do you think? I think if I were a programmer, doing programming all day every day as a primary line of work.... that 5000 lines of code in a six week period should be a breaze.
and he feels no responsibility to run for president in 2008 in order to get the power necessary for him to save the world.
I don't see your point. Is it not possible to believe that trying to run for President may not be the best way to advance the cause of fighting global warming? Seems to me you've got three outright lies, and one complete irrelevancy, here.
I saw an interview with Gore on the CBC program The Hour (www.cbc.ca/thehour). Basically, they asked him why he wouldn't run again - because being president would be a good way of working on this, you would think.
His answer made a lot of sense: If the people don't know what is going on, and truely believe the consequences, there is no point in trying to change things as president. He would never get anything through congress. Kyoto was a good example of that. He went out and was instrumental in Kyoto - but he couldn't get anyone to sign off on it.
This is all about money, and where the cigarette companies lost the tobacco truth war, the oil companies are winning the global warming war.
I found this video on google a few weeks ago. Real scientists, real university professors, talking about how the media is having such a hard time understanding this global warming thing.
Probably the best hour I've spent recently. The last speaker actually published an article in Nature specifically talking about the media's miscoverage of this issue. To sum up; there is no debate on global warming. The debate is on the details.
From the description in on google:
Renowned science scholar Naomi Oreskes and science producer Gene Rosow discuss how Hollywood and the news media portray global warming and... all what responsibility scientists have to educate the public about global warming.
Thats exactly what I want to do with it. In fact, thats all I want the system to do AT ALL. Hybrid drives are nice and all, but why isnt there one damn SATA/EIDE/ATA/whatever 4GB+ flash-only drive?
This would be invaluble to us in a server environment. All our storage is remote already, for gods' sake just give me a puny little solid-state drive that will rarely fail. Drives are the biggest thing we loose. It would drop costs for us all over the place.
I'd even use a bigger one at home. A pair of 6GB flash chips would be plenty for me and my desktop. I'll put all my storage on one big machine, and hide it in the basement.
But in the real world it takes losts of advertising, promotion and wheel-greasing to create a snger/band/TV show worth anything.
Bzzt, wrong.
What it takes is hard work. Being the son of a career musician, I can tell you that it is not hard to make a -very- decent living making music. What it does take, just as any other career, is years of constant work building a name for yourself in your community, and then beyond.
Would people please get it out of their head that labels somehow make music as a career viable. My dad has produced and sold several records, tapes and CDs in his career; has performed all over north america, and now in his late 50s owns his own recording studio and takes students. He has a waiting list of several dozen students, and has hired several teachers to help with the load.
You've probably never heard of him. His original music doesnt have raw mainstream appeal, BUT, contrary to your idea, he has made a very good living for himself through his music. And he never had a label around to rape his ideas and keep most of the money.
"Reality" has nothing to do with big buisness advertising, it has to do with hard work. Pure and simple. Does he support getting his music out there via filesharing? Yes. It helps him build his reputation and get other work.
So what to do with a cell chip that has one of the cores defective? Throw it away OR rebadge it and sell it for blade servers? That is were celerons come from (defective cache)
Actually, the cell has 8 SPU's on die. It only utilizes seven, specifically to handle the possibility of defective units. They throw the extra SPU on there to increase yields.
I've been using skypeout for about as long - and thats also a beef I have with it. Carrying around a headset is truely annoying, but wouldnt be so bad if they had good wireless headsets. I'm not talking about those crappy little bluetooth headsets they use for cell phones - those are useless for anything other than a telephone.
I want a stero bluetooth headset, with the headband around the back of my head, and a simple microphone. I want to be able to listen to my mp3's or videos on the same headset as I use for skype. Why dont any of these exist?
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Not at all. Use your own IDE, then cut and paste into theirs when you're happy.
Anyone have any idea on the difficulty of the problems? The language choices suck, but I'm still curious as to what kind of problems they throw at you.
My issue with apple is that I have to go to the top for any kind of flexibility. Give me a Mac Pro enclosure without the pricetag attached to dual xeons.
I have a challenge for you.
Provide me with -ONE- peer reviewed article that says that global warming isnt taking place.
Also - I've done some research on this - of the vocal "scientists" that argue against global warming, all but one that I've read about was or is on the payroll of big oil. That one scientist that isnt - argues against everything. He still argues that smoking doesnt cause cancer.
Best synopsys of this entire issue.
Did it ever occur to anyone that, on average, CEOs create jobs, grow companies, and increase wealth of themselves and others? Evil sons of bitches.
And?... cause I do all these items as well. The difference between a good manager and a crappy manager is a big one, and it applies all the way up the chain of command in a company, but CEO's dont magically create jobs or grow companies. There is no excuse to pay someone over a million dollars in SALARY. In fact, I would think anything more than a half mil would be excessive. -I- create jobs and grow the company. The ideas and descions that come down from the CEO's I've worked with/for have yet to ever strike me as anything other than common sense.
Now, I'm not saying I could be an effective CEO, because I simply dont have the management skills. In my opinion, 98% of what makes a CEO good is their management skill. But! Management skill doth not a multimillion dollar salary entitle.
That CEO does an extrodinary job, give em a bonus. Say, 20% of their salary and a nice 10% raise. That would be the best anyone else could ever hope for. I'd be happier than a pig in shit if someone gave me a $100,000 bonus on top of my half million dollar salary.
Paying seven million dollars PER YEAR for a CEO is downright stupid. At that point, as another poster said, you are really just supporting the "ruling class" mentality. Here comes the marxist in me, but nobody has any realistic use for accumulating that much wealth.
I'm gonna take a stab at this, just because I spend a fair bit of time thinking about how to do this kind of thing. It's hard for me to imagine how google does what it does, and finding a small amount of data in a absolutely massive system spread across thousands of servers... this is an interesting topic to ponder.
I would bet that they manage structured data within the filesystem itself - in fact, i think thats the ONLY way they could do it. I started going into detail in this post, but it started being too long and complicated, so heres the short version.
Combine sets of 20 machines into RAID-like arrays. Think like taking 20 iscsi drives on different machines and RAID'ing them together - except you dont have one machine doing the work - they all do the work.
Muliply that by 50, now you have 50 RAID-like arrays providing you some amount of raw space. Take that, and carve it up into usable volumes, not depending upon the underlying disks to worry about volumes size - spread it over as many arrays or partial arrays, who cares. Carve up volumes -only- based on data type, not based on anything else.
Now, take one volume, make it your primary index. This simply tells you what your other volumes contain. One volume for email, one volume for web, one volume for maps... Your data has structure, you need to be able to find it. So you index -everything-. Your indexes chain into each other, creating indexing volumes where nessecary, but keeping indexes and raw data separate.
Regardless, with this structure you've got a fast, easily expandable filesystem on which you can grow anything.
But then again, I've never written a filesystem. I just dream about having the time.
The great thing about core memory was its tolerance to water. Running into some wierd glitches in your application? Probably a problem with the memory - got dusty or something.
Pull it out, wash it off, away ya go!
Have you had any problems with mental imbalance, such as bipolar disorder? I'm not trying to be degrading, but that often plays into a belief in God from logical, scientific people.
I personally think that while the educated, intelligent people out there continue to state that they believe in God, organized religion will continue to exist. Real, direct atheism is NESSECARY, however it is very hard to be an atheist in this day and age.
I was raised in a religious home, and I was raised to challenge faith and develop my own relationship with God. And I did - I realized that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for the existance of God. I can accept that Jesus was a real person, and a great teacher in many ways, but I'm sorry, there is no God.
In order to move forward as a society, we must recognize this.
But in relation to the original topic, this cant be expected to change very soon. It is too useful as a means of control, and our politicians, religious leaders and such are too happy to make use of it. What needs to happen in the next hundred years will be (1.) getting control of the population explosion, and (2.) Reducing the dependance on fossil fuels substantially. Our nessecity on establishing off-world self-contained colonies should be a close third.
How exactly did this get modded funny? Parent is bang on.
I'm worried about allowing software on to the network that I can't monitor and disable at will.
And thats exactly why I dont want skype to change. I dont want the ability for my ISP, or any other provider down the line, to be able to block skype. It is my personal long-distance telephone, and I dont doubt that there are plenty of providers out there that would jump at the opportunity to block it.
Imagine that you have just spent the last two years actively using an internet service for your telephone - at free or near-free pricing. You wake up one day, and it doesnt work anymore. You call up your internet provider, who also happens to be a telco, and say "my internet-based-replacement for long distance isnt working anymore".
You can bet what their responce would be.
sorry - i ment bittorrent encrypted traffic, ie the azurus encryption.
But rest assured, the traffic analysis is child's play. If ISPs want to stop BT traffic, encryption won't present any impediments.
Ding ding ding. Rogers just started blocking encrypted traffic about a month ago. I'm waiting for the class-action suit.
Blocking P2P traffic is virtually impossible, we all know that.
I would beg to differ - Rogers in canada has been doing quite a good job of blocking all bittorrent traffic, encrypted and nonencrypted. They just recently put into play heuristic pattern matching to catch the encrypted traffic.
Not saying it doesnt suck. People are talking about a class-action suit against rogers.
Try living with real fascism, as my parents did in Cuba for 40 years...
Sorry, but I was under the impression that Cuba was Communist. I realize they are not totally mutually exclusive, one could say that Stalin was far more facist than communist, but he is still generally regarded as a Communist. When I think facism, I think Hilter and Mussolini.
I have to go with 1996-1997. Simply because of Final Fantasy VII. That game revolutionized the industry, made the playstation a true contender, and has haunted my dreams ever since.
Assuming their nickserv handling on the server side is run the same way Bahamut does theirs...
/nickserv or /msg service@services, but bahamut uses that, and does not accept messages in any other method for services. Bahamut is generally built specifically to handle these types of things.
*serv nicknames are generally reserved through Qlines. Qlines can be used to restrict all kinds of pattern-matched nicknames, however they still allow opers to use them - this is quite intentional. If the compromised server allowed people to set up opers, it would have been trivial to oper up, remove the real services from the network, and change your nickname to *serv.
I'm not sure how many networks have picked up on the
If freenode was using Bahamut, I'd be interested in talking to them about this. If a freenode admin sees this, drop me an email.
With the risk of feeding the trolls....
You're right. Earth's climate has changed drastically in its history. Those same drastic changes have also often caused massive extinction events.
THATS THE POINT.
5000 lines per year is mentioned as a joke...
.NET, no easy exception handling. Memory management, linked lists.. and this wasnt badly written code either. It was properly abstracted - have of it went into a shared object, the other half was customizations to other packages to reference that package.
I find this amazing. I produced 3500 lines of developer-tested code in a month, followed with a month of QA. This was in C - no
And I'm a fucking systems engineer. I'm not a programmer, I didn't go to university, I'm not paid like a programmer, and I don't want to be a programmer.
I would think 5000 lines in a year would be about a fifth of what a developer should be producing - of real, proper code.
Lines of code may not be the best metric, but speaking so generically, what do you think? I think if I were a programmer, doing programming all day every day as a primary line of work.... that 5000 lines of code in a six week period should be a breaze.
and he feels no responsibility to run for president in 2008 in order to get the power necessary for him to save the world.
I don't see your point. Is it not possible to believe that trying to run for President may not be the best way to advance the cause of fighting global warming? Seems to me you've got three outright lies, and one complete irrelevancy, here.
I saw an interview with Gore on the CBC program The Hour (www.cbc.ca/thehour). Basically, they asked him why he wouldn't run again - because being president would be a good way of working on this, you would think.
His answer made a lot of sense: If the people don't know what is going on, and truely believe the consequences, there is no point in trying to change things as president. He would never get anything through congress. Kyoto was a good example of that. He went out and was instrumental in Kyoto - but he couldn't get anyone to sign off on it.
This is all about money, and where the cigarette companies lost the tobacco truth war, the oil companies are winning the global warming war.
I found this video on google a few weeks ago. Real scientists, real university professors, talking about how the media is having such a hard time understanding this global warming thing.
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... all what responsibility scientists have to educate the public about global warming.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=185179271
Probably the best hour I've spent recently. The last speaker actually published an article in Nature specifically talking about the media's miscoverage of this issue. To sum up; there is no debate on global warming. The debate is on the details.
From the description in on google:
Renowned science scholar Naomi Oreskes and science producer Gene Rosow discuss how Hollywood and the news media portray global warming and
assuming you're using it to store OS code
Thats exactly what I want to do with it. In fact, thats all I want the system to do AT ALL. Hybrid drives are nice and all, but why isnt there one damn SATA/EIDE/ATA/whatever 4GB+ flash-only drive?
This would be invaluble to us in a server environment. All our storage is remote already, for gods' sake just give me a puny little solid-state drive that will rarely fail. Drives are the biggest thing we loose. It would drop costs for us all over the place.
I'd even use a bigger one at home. A pair of 6GB flash chips would be plenty for me and my desktop. I'll put all my storage on one big machine, and hide it in the basement.
Why isnt anyone selling this?
But in the real world it takes losts of advertising, promotion and wheel-greasing to create a snger/band/TV show worth anything.
Bzzt, wrong.
What it takes is hard work. Being the son of a career musician, I can tell you that it is not hard to make a -very- decent living making music. What it does take, just as any other career, is years of constant work building a name for yourself in your community, and then beyond.
Would people please get it out of their head that labels somehow make music as a career viable. My dad has produced and sold several records, tapes and CDs in his career; has performed all over north america, and now in his late 50s owns his own recording studio and takes students. He has a waiting list of several dozen students, and has hired several teachers to help with the load.
You've probably never heard of him. His original music doesnt have raw mainstream appeal, BUT, contrary to your idea, he has made a very good living for himself through his music. And he never had a label around to rape his ideas and keep most of the money.
"Reality" has nothing to do with big buisness advertising, it has to do with hard work. Pure and simple. Does he support getting his music out there via filesharing? Yes. It helps him build his reputation and get other work.
With the risk of being a me too post.... me too.
The winning design is blocking and uncomfortable, and I agree with another post - the font is terrible. The runner up is far better in my opinion.
I dont care that this isnt a democracy, I'm entitled to my opinion. Why didn't this go to a poll at least?
So what to do with a cell chip that has one of the cores defective? Throw it away OR rebadge it and sell it for blade servers? That is were celerons come from (defective cache)
Actually, the cell has 8 SPU's on die. It only utilizes seven, specifically to handle the possibility of defective units. They throw the extra SPU on there to increase yields.
I've been using skypeout for about as long - and thats also a beef I have with it. Carrying around a headset is truely annoying, but wouldnt be so bad if they had good wireless headsets. I'm not talking about those crappy little bluetooth headsets they use for cell phones - those are useless for anything other than a telephone.
I want a stero bluetooth headset, with the headband around the back of my head, and a simple microphone. I want to be able to listen to my mp3's or videos on the same headset as I use for skype. Why dont any of these exist?