Listen to yourself - "yet another money-hungry company" - it is a Slashdot-established truth that companies' exist to make money. Get over it.
All companies are money-hungry - but they can be money-hungry and still do cool shit. Google is an example of that. IBM is an example of that. Even Microsoft is an example of that.
When your company's focus changes from creating new technologies to using technologies that others create, you're going down the wrong path.
TI and HP were innovators in their heyday. Look at HP now.
Your monetary thinking is short-term. Yes, creating new technologies is always expensive on the onset. So what are you suggesting? That we all use Windows forever and ever since creating new technologies and adopting them with overhead costs is anyway expensive?
However, tomorrow when HP comes out with something else, they would have the technology that they have developed inhouse. And that will save them future development costs. The initial investment is always high, however the returns in the longterm far outweigh the immediate losses.
That's actually untrue, but even if it wasn't, so what - that's what people like - cheap and mediocre shit - and that's what they can sell in volume.
That _is_ indeed true. Although HP's troubles started even when Perens was heading out, Carly's services-oriented outlook killed the principles the company was founded on.
Look how Dell's growing by leaps and bounds - and they're not exactly a bastion of product innovation. What is HP supposed to do?
See? That's exactly what I meant. HP was not a company that followed what others created -- they were trendsetters of their day, who created new technologies that _others_ followed.
There is a _LOT_ that HP could have done, given their expertise in hardware. IBM is still a bastion of innovation -- and it's not like they are losing out to Dell. HP could equally have done just as well, instead they chose not to compete and rather follow.
No, I think they'd smile and say "Holy shit, man, times are tough now - we were lucky that we had the luxury of doing things the way we did! I don't know if we could pull that off today"..B U L L S H I T.
Who're you kidding? Good companies can always do cool things and still do well, if they are enterprising enough. HP had the financial muscle to make a change, companies 1/10th the size of HP are making new inroads with little to no financial muscle. Every other company had to go through the crucible, I do not see Microsoft cutting down MSR or IBM downsizing TJ Watson or Xerox closing PARC.
HP Labs has laid off _so_ many people (around 6k, if I remember) after the Compaq merger -- and most of these people once were part of the core technology and R&D groups.
HP was once a company that was innovative, creative and original. Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.
I'm sure that if Hewlett and Packard were to see the company now, they'd cringe in sadness and shame.
Thanks to the eminent Carly, HP now does nothing more than rebrand and sell services - they've laid off so many people who were into core technology and research operations. It's really sad to see what they have become.
Sure thing, we could start a group - what do you say?
I've received a couple of mails from interested people - one of the guys pointed me to Openusability.Org.
But I had something else in mind, more of a group working who consult (for free, ofcourse) on one or two OSS projects at a time - but doing a good and complete job of it.
What do you think? If you're interested mail me at metlin - at - gmail.
Ironic that you talk of education in a post while making blantant grammatical errors.
Its not that thier rich, it's that they are dumb.
they're or they are - not THEIR or THIER.
Go ahead, paint everyone who does not share your values with your elitist erudite brush.
I'm a Bush supporter and I'm pursuing graduate studies in a top tech school in quantum computing. I spent this summer the Los Alamos National Labs, and I'm sure you'd agree that a place that's the home of the atom and hydrogen bombs with so many PhDs is definitely smart enough - yet, ironically most of those people supported Bush.
Funny, isn't it?
I like the conservatives because they are willing to take responsibility, unlike the democrats who swing to and fro to garner votes. The same Democrats who opposed Eminem were jumping up and down with joy when he made Mosh.
Fucking bunch of hypocrites.
Dems in this country were once a great bunch, but not anymore. They're now a lousy bunch.
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So?
Big deal, how is posting useful information Karmawhoring?
I'm sure that when everyone started out, they've tried to getting their karma atleast a few times.
Atleast he's helping everyone out -- it sure as hell beats posting pointless AC comments and adding nothing worthwhile to the discussion.
No, you seem to have misinterpreted my points.
.B U L L S H I T.
Listen to yourself - "yet another money-hungry company" - it is a Slashdot-established truth that companies' exist to make money. Get over it.
All companies are money-hungry - but they can be money-hungry and still do cool shit. Google is an example of that. IBM is an example of that. Even Microsoft is an example of that.
When your company's focus changes from creating new technologies to using technologies that others create, you're going down the wrong path.
TI and HP were innovators in their heyday. Look at HP now.
Your monetary thinking is short-term. Yes, creating new technologies is always expensive on the onset. So what are you suggesting? That we all use Windows forever and ever since creating new technologies and adopting them with overhead costs is anyway expensive?
However, tomorrow when HP comes out with something else, they would have the technology that they have developed inhouse. And that will save them future development costs. The initial investment is always high, however the returns in the longterm far outweigh the immediate losses.
That's actually untrue, but even if it wasn't, so what - that's what people like - cheap and mediocre shit - and that's what they can sell in volume.
That _is_ indeed true. Although HP's troubles started even when Perens was heading out, Carly's services-oriented outlook killed the principles the company was founded on.
Maybe you should read Losing the HP Way.
Look how Dell's growing by leaps and bounds - and they're not exactly a bastion of product innovation. What is HP supposed to do?
See? That's exactly what I meant. HP was not a company that followed what others created -- they were trendsetters of their day, who created new technologies that _others_ followed.
There is a _LOT_ that HP could have done, given their expertise in hardware. IBM is still a bastion of innovation -- and it's not like they are losing out to Dell. HP could equally have done just as well, instead they chose not to compete and rather follow.
No, I think they'd smile and say "Holy shit, man, times are tough now - we were lucky that we had the luxury of doing things the way we did! I don't know if we could pull that off today".
Who're you kidding? Good companies can always do cool things and still do well, if they are enterprising enough. HP had the financial muscle to make a change, companies 1/10th the size of HP are making new inroads with little to no financial muscle. Every other company had to go through the crucible, I do not see Microsoft cutting down MSR or IBM downsizing TJ Watson or Xerox closing PARC.
HP Labs has laid off _so_ many people (around 6k, if I remember) after the Compaq merger -- and most of these people once were part of the core technology and R&D groups.
I'm sorry, I don't buy your argument.
I guess this explains the HP branded iPod too.
Which is kinda sad, really.
HP was once a company that was innovative, creative and original. Now they've degenerated into yet another money-hungry company who're afraid to tread new grounds or create something from scratch.
I'm sure that if Hewlett and Packard were to see the company now, they'd cringe in sadness and shame.
Thanks to the eminent Carly, HP now does nothing more than rebrand and sell services - they've laid off so many people who were into core technology and research operations. It's really sad to see what they have become.
Oh that's easy.
;-)
It's because you're from Canada
I consider good lawyers to be the equivalent of hackers --> they hack the legal code that this society was built to, to make their point.
Morals and ethics are relative, but hats off to anyone who can tackle the finer points of law to get things their way.
They're the real hackers of the society's fundamental principle - the law.
Here's a summary, and here's the Wikipedia link (grep 'Morocco'). This is much more authoritative though, but longer.
Not really, but have heard of it. Will check it out, thanks!
Sure thing, we could start a group - what do you say?
I've received a couple of mails from interested people - one of the guys pointed me to Openusability.Org.
But I had something else in mind, more of a group working who consult (for free, ofcourse) on one or two OSS projects at a time - but doing a good and complete job of it.
What do you think? If you're interested mail me at metlin - at - gmail.
Ironic that you talk of education in a post while making blantant grammatical errors.
Its not that thier rich, it's that they are dumb.
they're or they are - not THEIR or THIER.
Go ahead, paint everyone who does not share your values with your elitist erudite brush.
I'm a Bush supporter and I'm pursuing graduate studies in a top tech school in quantum computing. I spent this summer the Los Alamos National Labs, and I'm sure you'd agree that a place that's the home of the atom and hydrogen bombs with so many PhDs is definitely smart enough - yet, ironically most of those people supported Bush.
Funny, isn't it?
I like the conservatives because they are willing to take responsibility, unlike the democrats who swing to and fro to garner votes. The same Democrats who opposed Eminem were jumping up and down with joy when he made Mosh.
Fucking bunch of hypocrites.
Dems in this country were once a great bunch, but not anymore. They're now a lousy bunch.
Well, many schools have programs specific to this area.
One of my Masters is in the HCI Program at the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, with specialization in the CS track.
CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, NYU, UWash etc are some other schools with such programs.
El neato post.
Well said, people randomly compare tiny European countries smaller than the size of a single state in this country and make up random analogies.
The US is _big_ and has a _very_ diverse population. Given all that, we're doing a kickass job of managing things, I'd say.
How is it any different?
In fact, it makes it worse -- you think we deserve getting attacked because ONE man that you do not like got elected?
Putting Bush in for another 4 years seems like a pretty bad thing to do for the rest of the world, never mind us at home.
Unfortunately, 51% of Americans seem to disagree with you on that one. Too bad.
Actually, it's not meant to be a public list -- the AC asked me if I read books and I just gave him the list.
It's just something I use personally to keep track of my books.
But it's funny that it does not render well in FF 0.10 and it seems fine. Weird.
One word - Why?
It also appears that the process happend via selective breeding rather than gene manipulation, but it's an outside possibility that it was engineered.
Just _why_ would someone want to introduce such GM/GEd stuff?
I'd say he's more of a troll, than a crank :-)
A class AST troll (and I actually fell for it, sheesh). Didn't bother reading through - realized what it was once I did.
Oh well.
*hush* child!
;-)
My karma would take a hit
Bellissard seriously rocks.
He's one of the people responsible for theoretical QC research in GATech -- along with Chapman and a few other folks from GTRI such as John Cortese.
He's also the former editor of the really respected Theoretical Physics journal, Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré.
Brilliant professor, and a wonderful person.
Great post, thanks!
Added you as a friend...
Ofcourse.
;-)
Proof by induction, eh mate?
Wonder how many math-challenged would actually get it, though. Good one!
It's just a personal list - it's written in Excel and exported as HTML.
Btw, it works fine on both Firefox and Mozilla 1.7.3 - do a refresh and it renders fine.
Bah, Slashdot ate up all the variables and constants that I'd copy/pasted from the PDF - too bad.
You can get it off the paper, anyway.
Here is the original paper.
,) be such that
:-)
(it might be gone soon, though - it's an arXiv mirror)
Lemma 8 is on Page 35 -
Lemma 8 Let r(v) and (v) of class C1(v0,), 0 r(v) v0 = 1/2 N0; and let (v) in C0(v
*defines an integral limit for K as a function of (T) for certain values of T, and gives the boundary and limit conditions*
Although this made sense, the proof is kinda over my head, though.
Btw - which dept were you at GT?
ROTFL!
:-P
Didn't realize for a fact about some of the stuff you have, nice
Almost had me, until I decided to look deeper.
No sarcasm intended, merely meant it as a compliment. Noticed that the upper directory had a lot of other cool math stuff, too.
(haven't gone through them - yet, merely noticed that there seemed to be a lot of good mathematical content).
You should probably read Primes is in P - good paper.
PS - There is no such thing as FBT, atleast AFAIK. Is that one of yours? Has it been published/peer reviewed?
Ah, my bad. I thought you were talking of Primes in P w.r.t. numerology, and being a physicist completely ignored the rest of the content =)
Been up all night, need more sleep.
No. %s/g/sleep/coffee. Better!