Sounds about right. The Alpha-geek is afraid of fresh competent blood which might possibly make his work look bad - perhaps hes not working _that_ hard after all, even if it looks hard - and get him fired.
I had an instance of this once. Luckly for me the alpha-geek was introverted majorly, and was passive-aggressive when he took action (which wasnt often). I ended up leaving because for a programmer, doing SA work is just painful sometimes.
except you didn't read the article, did you? The bottom line is... they are *NOT* worth the trouble. A single prima donna can screw up a 20 person team to the point where no one wants to work with said prima donna.
I worked with one such case once, and well, I ended up leaving. One of the fun things he said was "i dont see the point of university" and basically suggested that anyone who went to university was wasting their time. Shit like that, well I'm just as bright as that guy, except unlike him I didn't piss off our largest customer and now they lost me. But thats ok, cuz now I'm hired by a large corporation being paid many times what he made.
i have to ask, what is up with 'iranians' and all that shit? thats old hat, old history guy. The threat will _not_ be coming from iran. Hell, France built a nuclear research facility in iraq and sold them the nuclear materials for 3 years. Iran claims they do not support terrorism anymore (at least not offically, which is alot better than before). They sell oil to the western world. I mean comeone.
Your real threats are from small non-country groups, such as Bin Laden and his band of FREAKS and so on and so forth.
not entirely true, many common types of audio tubes are still being manufactured. Maybe they werent from the 60s, but not many people use 60s stereos. furthermore there is the New-Old Stock (NOS), as there is hundreds of thousands of old tubes just lying around.
But modern tube amps (I build myself one) are easy to get replacement tubes for. The only ones which are likely to need replacement are the power tubes, I've already replaced a pair (they got damaged while I was putting this thing together...). I'll likely purchase backup tubes for the smaller signal tubes sometime, but they're cheap.
Its the output tubes which arent the cheapest, USD$50/quad.
you're thinking of the 'normal distribution' which looks like what some people call a "bell curve". Needless to say, normal distribution is exactly that, normal;-) of course it isnt, which is the biggest falacy in statistics.
The poisson is used to model events, such as the number of calls at a business, etc.
You know it. But not everywhere in the lower mainland gets this kind of service. I'm in kerrisdale, so few subscribers (few power subscribers) means less contention on the actual shared cable, plus we seem to have very short connections to downtown/everywhere else. 15-20 ms to UBC today.
But go to north van, and its nasty, you can barely get 50kB/sec down.
I hear though that the new shaw backbone is excellent, people in maple ridge are being switched and its much better, plus another friend got switched and its better.
It appears shaw really is doing something right... that 'big pipe' - OC48 probably helps alot;-)
There already is a series of systems which integrate mp3 players and fairtunes. The first of which is freeamp 2.1rc5, and there is a fairtunes plugin for winamp, so infact your ideal situation exists and currently works!
not to mention, thanks for the heavy borrowing that the US did to fund the vietnam war, when in 1971 the US dollar was debased from the gold standard, it went down by over 30% in value starting the long slide of the american dollar and the american budget.
When reagan went into power, the us had no debt, and was the largest creditor nation, but 8 years later, when he left, the US was the largest debtor nation with a huge crippling national debt.
reagan sucked, well thanks to the iranian revolution got him elected. then there was the iran-contra thing... oh god you guys dont know how to do anything right (no im not american)
the ability to have 100GB databases means nothing. "crashme" also means nothing. TPC means quite a bit more. The major problem with crashme and 100 GB databases is they are not likely to simulate real world behaviour. Remember all that quacking over CPU benchmarks and how they were misleading? Same thing with databases. As for mysql's "tests", well let me tell _you_ something, there is a bug in mysql where a missing update occurs, a single threaded app inserts a row, then trys to read it back and its not there. It gets written to disk eventually, but just in that instant its not there. I'm not sure the 'crashme' tests would reveal these kinds of limitations.
Wait a moment, SNO _is_ using Heavy Water, infact the Atomic Comission of Canada is "lending" the several thousand (or more?) tons of heavy water necessary for SNO. Why do I know? Well I live in Canada, and hey, when you have a _MAJOR_ physics experiment in your country you read a few things about it.
this news is so old school, when I was looking for university coop jobs you could get a job at SNO doing something or other, I think it was "SNO Operator" or something like that. You get to 'drive' SNO;-) heh....
The hack is a little more involved than tossing a car w/a rope attached to it... there were 2 cables involved, the first one going from one side of the bridge to the other, the second one suspended the car from the centre of the first cable. Thus forming a y shape cable with the 3 points attached to either side of the bridge and the car. Also rememer, these guys dont exactly live in SF so they didnt have unlimited time to do this in, not to mention unfamiliarity with the area (then again, maybe not?).
Not exactly trival, not to mention they got away scot free. So far;-)
I dont mean to insult you, but you really need to read some more. She is _NOT_ the president of UBC, she is the president of the EUS. Engineering Undergraduate Society. Yes, a student.
I doubt the president proper (Marth Piper) would actually comment on the stunt, she seems to be the quiet type.
No but Saddam will use his mighty Mirage fighter jets sold to him by... France!
In the mid 80s, France got a free test of their military arms in the iran-iraq war when they were supplying both sides of the border...
I somehow doubt that availability of comptuting equipment has any impact on weapon systems... a PS2 is quite far away from a missile guidance system... they'd be better off buying Shark DSPs and using those. Plus they're cheaper.
Agreed, Tubes are not obsolete... Like you said, in high power applications you can only use tubes because transistors cannot control the power necessary for things such as radar and high-power broadcasting. Imagine a vacuum tube the size of a person...
I'm sceptical of QC in general, mostly cuz im a sceptical kinda person;-)
But from what I understand of QC, its mostly special purpose, so this wont exactly help your game of quake3....
We' used XINU for the 4th year OS course here at UBC. Its not really a unix-alike system, and its extremely simple... but it allows students to play around with stuff like implimenting semaphors, ipc, etc.
The size and simplicity makes it possible for a student to understand it in a single term course, so I can understand why they went with a non-real life os like xinu vs BSD or Linux.
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Sounds about right. The Alpha-geek is afraid of fresh competent blood which might possibly make his work look bad - perhaps hes not working _that_ hard after all, even if it looks hard - and get him fired.
I had an instance of this once. Luckly for me the alpha-geek was introverted majorly, and was passive-aggressive when he took action (which wasnt often). I ended up leaving because for a programmer, doing SA work is just painful sometimes.
yes! H1-B, im so there dude. Or a TN-1, whatever. ;-)
except you didn't read the article, did you? The bottom line is... they are *NOT* worth the trouble. A single prima donna can screw up a 20 person team to the point where no one wants to work with said prima donna.
I worked with one such case once, and well, I ended up leaving. One of the fun things he said was "i dont see the point of university" and basically suggested that anyone who went to university was wasting their time. Shit like that, well I'm just as bright as that guy, except unlike him I didn't piss off our largest customer and now they lost me. But thats ok, cuz now I'm hired by a large corporation being paid many times what he made.
i have to ask, what is up with 'iranians' and all that shit? thats old hat, old history guy. The threat will _not_ be coming from iran. Hell, France built a nuclear research facility in iraq and sold them the nuclear materials for 3 years. Iran claims they do not support terrorism anymore (at least not offically, which is alot better than before). They sell oil to the western world. I mean comeone.
Your real threats are from small non-country groups, such as Bin Laden and his band of FREAKS and so on and so forth.
amen brother... you got it.
*sigh* uncultured women... makes me sick.
buy a new computer, i hear pentiums are really cheap now.....
Except that how is Iran a "rogue nation" ? They don't have a nuclear weapons programme, they sell oil to western nations, and have democracy.
Besides, the PS2 doesnt have _that much_ power in it. The AMD K7-1400 is a tad more powerful... not to mention G4 chips, etc.
You sound like a middle-american who knows nothing of the world except what they're told by their government. Get a clue.
not entirely true, many common types of audio tubes are still being manufactured. Maybe they werent from the 60s, but not many people use 60s stereos. furthermore there is the New-Old Stock (NOS), as there is hundreds of thousands of old tubes just lying around.
But modern tube amps (I build myself one) are easy to get replacement tubes for. The only ones which are likely to need replacement are the power tubes, I've already replaced a pair (they got damaged while I was putting this thing together...). I'll likely purchase backup tubes for the smaller signal tubes sometime, but they're cheap.
Its the output tubes which arent the cheapest, USD$50/quad.
But its SOOOOOOOO worth it.
you're thinking of the 'normal distribution' which looks like what some people call a "bell curve". Needless to say, normal distribution is exactly that, normal ;-) of course it isnt, which is the biggest falacy in statistics.
The poisson is used to model events, such as the number of calls at a business, etc.
Amen ;-)
The grandparent post makes no sense, how is using computers to visualize terabytes of data "cheating" or somehow being "Un-Jesus like"?
and why jesus figures into a conversation about GIS is way beyond me...
You know it. But not everywhere in the lower mainland gets this kind of service. I'm in kerrisdale, so few subscribers (few power subscribers) means less contention on the actual shared cable, plus we seem to have very short connections to downtown/everywhere else. 15-20 ms to UBC today.
;-)
But go to north van, and its nasty, you can barely get 50kB/sec down.
I hear though that the new shaw backbone is excellent, people in maple ridge are being switched and its much better, plus another friend got switched and its better.
It appears shaw really is doing something right... that 'big pipe' - OC48 probably helps alot
In Vancouver, BC Canada:
Cable modem with Shaw@Home.
5Meg down.
4 Meg up.
I routinely have people retrieving mp3s from me on napster at nearly 400kB/sec.
No, thats KILO-BYTES PER SECOND, not bits.
As far as I know I have the fastest cable modem in the world.
Note, 400 kB/sec up/down is over twice as fast as a T1.
Yes indeed, life is good.
There already is a series of systems which integrate mp3 players and fairtunes. The first of which is freeamp 2.1rc5, and there is a fairtunes plugin for winamp, so infact your ideal situation exists and currently works!
not to mention, thanks for the heavy borrowing that the US did to fund the vietnam war, when in 1971 the US dollar was debased from the gold standard, it went down by over 30% in value starting the long slide of the american dollar and the american budget.
When reagan went into power, the us had no debt, and was the largest creditor nation, but 8 years later, when he left, the US was the largest debtor nation with a huge crippling national debt.
reagan sucked, well thanks to the iranian revolution got him elected. then there was the iran-contra thing... oh god you guys dont know how to do anything right (no im not american)
the ability to have 100GB databases means nothing. "crashme" also means nothing. TPC means quite a bit more. The major problem with crashme and 100 GB databases is they are not likely to simulate real world behaviour. Remember all that quacking over CPU benchmarks and how they were misleading? Same thing with databases. As for mysql's "tests", well let me tell _you_ something, there is a bug in mysql where a missing update occurs, a single threaded app inserts a row, then trys to read it back and its not there. It gets written to disk eventually, but just in that instant its not there. I'm not sure the 'crashme' tests would reveal these kinds of limitations.
not this bullshit again, _sigh_.
Well, since mysql is using db3 with XA support, I guess I can throw out my legacy Oracle database and bolt in mysql in my transaction monitor system.
Anyways, I won't say anything about mysql, except, I've lost my faith in it.
Wait a moment, SNO _is_ using Heavy Water, infact the Atomic Comission of Canada is "lending" the several thousand (or more?) tons of heavy water necessary for SNO. Why do I know? Well I live in Canada, and hey, when you have a _MAJOR_ physics experiment in your country you read a few things about it.
;-) heh....
this news is so old school, when I was looking for university coop jobs you could get a job at SNO doing something or other, I think it was "SNO Operator" or something like that. You get to 'drive' SNO
well the car was _under_ the bridge... it was the overcautious authorities freaking out over a little car...
Anyways, please repeat this rant for the 'voyeur bus' incident. And anything which isnt strictly 100% legal which "ties up traffic".
Traffic is traffic, expecting to get somewhere in a hurry during rush hour? Naw, forget about it.
Anyways, its the authorities and rubberneckers, I'd like to see you prove that the students either caused direct damage or had intent to damage.
Besides, when was the last time you pulled a prank in another country?
The hack is a little more involved than tossing a car w/a rope attached to it... there were 2 cables involved, the first one going from one side of the bridge to the other, the second one suspended the car from the centre of the first cable. Thus forming a y shape cable with the 3 points attached to either side of the bridge and the car. Also rememer, these guys dont exactly live in SF so they didnt have unlimited time to do this in, not to mention unfamiliarity with the area (then again, maybe not?).
;-)
Not exactly trival, not to mention they got away scot free. So far
I dont mean to insult you, but you really need to read some more. She is _NOT_ the president of UBC, she is the president of the EUS. Engineering Undergraduate Society. Yes, a student.
I doubt the president proper (Marth Piper) would actually comment on the stunt, she seems to be the quiet type.
And yes I go to UBC.
life is no fun no more.
No but Saddam will use his mighty Mirage fighter jets sold to him by... France!
In the mid 80s, France got a free test of their military arms in the iran-iraq war when they were supplying both sides of the border...
I somehow doubt that availability of comptuting equipment has any impact on weapon systems... a PS2 is quite far away from a missile guidance system... they'd be better off buying Shark DSPs and using those. Plus they're cheaper.
Agreed, Tubes are not obsolete... Like you said, in high power applications you can only use tubes because transistors cannot control the power necessary for things such as radar and high-power broadcasting. Imagine a vacuum tube the size of a person... I'm sceptical of QC in general, mostly cuz im a sceptical kinda person ;-)
But from what I understand of QC, its mostly special purpose, so this wont exactly help your game of quake3....
not entirely true, i have a book called 'operating system design volume I the xinu approach'
there is also tcp/ip stuff for it, and i understand a networking course uses xinu for that... not sure exactly.
the copyright is 1988, but its still in print.
We' used XINU for the 4th year OS course here at UBC. Its not really a unix-alike system, and its extremely simple... but it allows students to play around with stuff like implimenting semaphors, ipc, etc.
The size and simplicity makes it possible for a student to understand it in a single term course, so I can understand why they went with a non-real life os like xinu vs BSD or Linux.