Umm, actually I say that as a British Columbian.... I feel more in common with the Maritimes then with Alberta... you and your wacky right wing premier.... unfortunately we have one right now too. But only for one more year!
Of course if you are American, definitely stay down there, you won't like it up here and we won't like you (unless you go hang out with the rednecks in Alberta, but I don't consider them very Canadian, private healthcare, ha, that's not the Canadian way, they should move south)
Err, before I get marked flamebait.... that "If you are American" obviously is a typo, it should read, "if you are Republican" Oops.
It's horrible up here, stay down there, you're better off. Yup, we're all full up here, no more Americans need apply.... just look at who you elected president. None of that up here please. Steven Harper is bad enough. But please, take this bacon as a door prize.
Seriously, why are you just moving up here? If you don't like America's attitude, change it. By leaving you're just going to increase the asshole quotiant down south, the number of "true blood americans" or whatever those conservative capitalist types like to call themselves. And the Republics just might win again and again and again. Of course if you are American, definitely stay down there, you won't like it up here and we won't like you (unless you go hang out with the rednecks in Alberta, but I don't consider them very Canadian, private healthcare, ha, that's not the Canadian way, they should move south)
Rambus believes that RDRAM was not the success it should have been because chip makers did not want to pay their royalties.
Duh. Two technologies, one free, the other having outrageous royalties... which would you pick? This proves that one does not have to be a genius to run a company.... And that royalties on technology is bad, m'kay?
Trigonometry for games... maybe if you're programming for a Commodore 64! For hardcore game programming you better know matrix algebra, millions upon millions of transformations a second. I know, I know, the new APIs all hide this, but a good programmer knows the fundamentals of how it works.
Or statistics, I know I hated it while in university, barely got through it. But now working in bioinformatics research it comes in very handy, Bayesian networks and all.
Another tool in research becoming more popular and I use on a daily basis - support vector machines, better know your university math for that.
Or Non-Euclidean algebra, another common course for CS majors, I know one section of it at my university used postscript to demonstrate all the concepts. All homework assignments were to be done in postscript even.
So math for CS majors? Definitely. I know, we all hate it, it's not "programming," but, it's good for you, it builds character, you'll thank us for it later when you have kids....;)
My question is.... how many slashdot readers who would use this service actually would be firing up a web browser to begin with?
I mean whenever I seek out a hotspot for some quick access the only thing I do is fire up putty and ssh into my machine. Pine be thy friend. So if there were ads, I'd never see them.
There's also ways to get around this.... some of Mozilla's features might be very good at stopping these ads. Or one could blackhole them using their hosts file if you were really determined to elimiante them.
There's nothing to complain about in this. For those who don't mind ads for some free service it's great. For those who rarely use the web while on the road, it's great. It's only those who feel the need to complain whenever they see the word "ad" that should be concerned.
There are benefits to a degree, of course. If they have good marks and all that from a good school, you know they were a studious worker and kept priorities straight and they're well-rounded. However, when it comes right down to it, 8 years of theory packed in and put up against 8 years of solid experience are no match. Eight years of good experience, with or without prior education, will mop the floor with theory.
Let me rephrase what I said. For en entry level position, I wouldn't consider someone without a degree, without the solid theoretical foundation.
For moving up the ladder (which is what the Ask Slashdot was asll about) of course I would require someone with experience. I wouldn't hire a fresh grad for that. But as a foundation for that experience I wouldn't consider someone without a degree. All serious positions in the tech sector should be required to have a degree, there are rare exceptions when I would recommend someone without a degree. Then you take this theoretical foundation and build skills upon it, learning languages, algorithm design, etc.
If you just have a flight by night trade school certificate your skills will be outdated within 5 years. If you know the theory of why things work the way they do you can quickly learn new skills.
Oh, bullshit. I'm going back to school for CS, because a bachelors from a four-year university trumps all other certs. When I hired my replacement, I expected to be swimming in applicants, but wasn't. We also specified that my replacement had at least a bachelor's, which is probably why we only got SEVEN resumes.
Spending money on certs is a waste. Spending money on a real education is smart.
I couldn't agree more! Get a real degree.
I know I certainly wouldn't high someone "up the ladder" without a minimum of degree for any hardcore programming job. Not a diploma, or a "certificate" from one of these little private "schools" - but an actual university (or college for you Americans) degree which comes with a strong theoretical background.
During the dot-com bubble I remember all these people coming out who knew html or flash from these 6 month "schools" claiming to be programmers. And they got jobs because... well everyone got a job with stock options out the wing wang. Then when the bust occurred they all were the first to get laid off and couldn't understand why they couldn't get another job. Because you're not real computer scientists/software engineers! So you learned a few of the "hot" skills for this year, it won't help you learning new ones unless you have the theoretical background.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
Would it be worth it to get a degree in MIS or CS?
You don't have a CS degree? Well, there's your problem right there. I know I certainly wouldn't high someone "up the ladder" without a minimum of degree for any hardcore programming job. Not a diploma, or a "certificate" from one of these little private "schools" - but an actual university (or college for you Americans) degree which comes with a strong theoretical background.
During the dot-com bubble I remember all these people coming out who knew html or flash from these 6 month "schools" claiming to be programmers. And they got jobs because... well everyone got a job with stock options out the wing wang. Then when the bust occurred they all were the first to get laid off and couldn't understand why they couldn't get another job. Because you're not real computer scientists/software engineers! So you learned a few of the "hot" skills for this year, it won't help you learning new ones unless you have the theoretical background.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
Certainly interesting at first, but the colours and layout make my skin crawl. It just doesn't seem as instantly usable as Google, it feels cluttered.
Add to that is far slower then Google, yes I know it's being slashdotted right now, but that never slowed down Google.
I'm sorry, this just ain't going to be a winner. Now if Google were to incorperate some of these new features such as detailed site info that might be a good thing.
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I wonder, is there any way one could setup a dummy machine between your "CPU" and the internet to trick this software into thinking it's sending out spam? Some kind of dummy MTA that responds to all outbound port 25 requests and "accepts" all emails.
It would be fantastic! Take the spammers money and have all their spam flow into a big blackhole. This has definite possibilities....
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I wonder, is there any way one could setup a dummy machine between your "CPU" and the internet to trick this software into thinking it's sending out spam? Some kind of dummy MTA that responds to all outbound port 25 requests and "accepts" all emails.
It would be fantastic! Take the spammers money and have all their spam flow into a big blackhole. This has possibilities....
If I had known design patterns that worked.... why would I share them? This is one area where closed source is definitely favourable, Dawinian if you will....
That would be my suggestion as well. Why should you pay for SMS on your personal cell phone (oh I know, you probably have a package plan, but technically you are still paying for it) for work? Do you own any stock in this company? If not, then why use your personal funds to help them?
I had a similar setup at my old office, but made the following business case: You could either pay for a pager for me which is a one way communication medium OR You could give me the equivilent towards my personal cellphone bill plus any airtime I rack up for company business
The equivilent came to the price of the unlimited SMS package. And fortunately using the Penguin OS the servers rarely went down ( 1 per month), so it was pennies from heaven. I was happy, they had someone watching over their machines, it all worked well. Actually since midnight calls would usually be fixed via ssh from home I also had them pay a chunk of my ADSL bill... I was afterall using it for business purposes.
Of course I also made it clear that if it did page me at 2:30am I would take a half day in lieu of my sleepy time.
As others have said, if you just make a business case usually you can convince them of many things. Afterall, I was up against a penny pinching manager when negotiating all of this.
I wonder how long it will take someone at MIT or some other tech university to figure out if I put all the Macs located on or around a college campus I could or University could make it's self a mini-Super Computer for very few dollars.
We did this 6 months ago when we were first beta testing XGrid. I never had the opportunity to personally play with it, but a grid of a hundred EMacs was a pretty good start to a mini-supercomputer I was told.:)
Oh good, you mean I can actually talk about XGrid now after signing an NDA over 6 months ago?:)
We had the second installation of XGrid, the only other group using it at the time was NASA. I haven't had much time to play with it personally but we had our coop do some genetic sequence analysis using it and he was quite impressed. Plus the speedometer-like gauge measuring performance just looks soooo cool.;)
Umm, Sun is very actively selling their new Xeon based systems currently as well. I actually just installed a V65x last Monday in our cluster.
Of course we won't mention that these machines are just OEM'ed from Intel... I know this because I bought the equivilent of a V60x directly from Intel this fall... for much less then what Sun charges.:)
What the hell is new about this? This type of hybrid vehicle has been around for years.
The most common are Diesel-electric railroad engines. However over the years the idea of Diesel-electric has been used in buses and cars. There is nothing novel about this "invention".
And it's my poor server that has to bare the burden.... but so far it's held up fairly well each time. Pretty good for a celeron 1.7GHz w/ 256M.:)
However this time was particularly bad because of it being a series of essays. I just increased the number of instances of Apache by 66% and doubled the number of requests before a child dies. That seems to have brought some responsiveness back.
Funny thing is I didn't even know he was/.'ed until he emailed me. I went to check my email (via pine) and the console was as responsive as usual.
For the geeks who enjoy technical detail... it's running on an Inspire cube PC, one of those little cubes with a mini-ATX in it. Shows you don't see a lot of horse power to serve static content.:)
Whoa, everyone is talking broadband when replying to this post... I just assumed when I saw "200 hours/month" it meant dialup... who measures broadband in hours? Broadband is always connected.... hell, I always have an ssh window open to my home machine from work.
Alright, broadband limits... Telus here explicitly states it's limit for bandwidth usage, however I have never heard of it being enforced. Hell, I usually go over my "limit" every month - not that they tell you how much you've used.
Shaw (or Rogers) won't tell you the limit, won't tell you what's acceptable, and won't tell you how much you've used. And they do send those nasty letters saying you've exceeded your limit.
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Umm, actually I say that as a British Columbian.... I feel more in common with the Maritimes then with Alberta... you and your wacky right wing premier.... unfortunately we have one right now too. But only for one more year!
Of course if you are American, definitely stay down there, you won't like it up here and we won't like you (unless you go hang out with the rednecks in Alberta, but I don't consider them very Canadian, private healthcare, ha, that's not the Canadian way, they should move south)
Err, before I get marked flamebait.... that "If you are American" obviously is a typo, it should read, "if you are Republican" Oops.
It's horrible up here, stay down there, you're better off. Yup, we're all full up here, no more Americans need apply.... just look at who you elected president. None of that up here please. Steven Harper is bad enough. But please, take this bacon as a door prize.
Seriously, why are you just moving up here? If you don't like America's attitude, change it. By leaving you're just going to increase the asshole quotiant down south, the number of "true blood americans" or whatever those conservative capitalist types like to call themselves. And the Republics just might win again and again and again. Of course if you are American, definitely stay down there, you won't like it up here and we won't like you (unless you go hang out with the rednecks in Alberta, but I don't consider them very Canadian, private healthcare, ha, that's not the Canadian way, they should move south)
But this one under the "duh" category.
Rambus believes that RDRAM was not the success it should have been because chip makers did not want to pay their royalties.
Duh. Two technologies, one free, the other having outrageous royalties... which would you pick? This proves that one does not have to be a genius to run a company.... And that royalties on technology is bad, m'kay?
Trigonometry for games... maybe if you're programming for a Commodore 64! For hardcore game programming you better know matrix algebra, millions upon millions of transformations a second. I know, I know, the new APIs all hide this, but a good programmer knows the fundamentals of how it works.
;)
Or statistics, I know I hated it while in university, barely got through it. But now working in bioinformatics research it comes in very handy, Bayesian networks and all.
Another tool in research becoming more popular and I use on a daily basis - support vector machines, better know your university math for that.
Or Non-Euclidean algebra, another common course for CS majors, I know one section of it at my university used postscript to demonstrate all the concepts. All homework assignments were to be done in postscript even.
So math for CS majors? Definitely. I know, we all hate it, it's not "programming," but, it's good for you, it builds character, you'll thank us for it later when you have kids....
My question is.... how many slashdot readers who would use this service actually would be firing up a web browser to begin with?
I mean whenever I seek out a hotspot for some quick access the only thing I do is fire up putty and ssh into my machine. Pine be thy friend. So if there were ads, I'd never see them.
There's also ways to get around this.... some of Mozilla's features might be very good at stopping these ads. Or one could blackhole them using their hosts file if you were really determined to elimiante them.
There's nothing to complain about in this. For those who don't mind ads for some free service it's great. For those who rarely use the web while on the road, it's great. It's only those who feel the need to complain whenever they see the word "ad" that should be concerned.
There are benefits to a degree, of course. If they have good marks and all that from a good school, you know they were a studious worker and kept priorities straight and they're well-rounded. However, when it comes right down to it, 8 years of theory packed in and put up against 8 years of solid experience are no match. Eight years of good experience, with or without prior education, will mop the floor with theory.
Let me rephrase what I said. For en entry level position, I wouldn't consider someone without a degree, without the solid theoretical foundation.
For moving up the ladder (which is what the Ask Slashdot was asll about) of course I would require someone with experience. I wouldn't hire a fresh grad for that. But as a foundation for that experience I wouldn't consider someone without a degree. All serious positions in the tech sector should be required to have a degree, there are rare exceptions when I would recommend someone without a degree. Then you take this theoretical foundation and build skills upon it, learning languages, algorithm design, etc.
If you just have a flight by night trade school certificate your skills will be outdated within 5 years. If you know the theory of why things work the way they do you can quickly learn new skills.
Oh, bullshit. I'm going back to school for CS, because a bachelors from a four-year university trumps all other certs. When I hired my replacement, I expected to be swimming in applicants, but wasn't. We also specified that my replacement had at least a bachelor's, which is probably why we only got SEVEN resumes.
Spending money on certs is a waste. Spending money on a real education is smart.
I couldn't agree more! Get a real degree.
I know I certainly wouldn't high someone "up the ladder" without a minimum of degree for any hardcore programming job. Not a diploma, or a "certificate" from one of these little private "schools" - but an actual university (or college for you Americans) degree which comes with a strong theoretical background.
During the dot-com bubble I remember all these people coming out who knew html or flash from these 6 month "schools" claiming to be programmers. And they got jobs because... well everyone got a job with stock options out the wing wang. Then when the bust occurred they all were the first to get laid off and couldn't understand why they couldn't get another job. Because you're not real computer scientists/software engineers! So you learned a few of the "hot" skills for this year, it won't help you learning new ones unless you have the theoretical background.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
Would it be worth it to get a degree in MIS or CS?
You don't have a CS degree? Well, there's your problem right there. I know I certainly wouldn't high someone "up the ladder" without a minimum of degree for any hardcore programming job. Not a diploma, or a "certificate" from one of these little private "schools" - but an actual university (or college for you Americans) degree which comes with a strong theoretical background.
During the dot-com bubble I remember all these people coming out who knew html or flash from these 6 month "schools" claiming to be programmers. And they got jobs because... well everyone got a job with stock options out the wing wang. Then when the bust occurred they all were the first to get laid off and couldn't understand why they couldn't get another job. Because you're not real computer scientists/software engineers! So you learned a few of the "hot" skills for this year, it won't help you learning new ones unless you have the theoretical background.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
Certainly interesting at first, but the colours and layout make my skin crawl. It just doesn't seem as instantly usable as Google, it feels cluttered.
Add to that is far slower then Google, yes I know it's being slashdotted right now, but that never slowed down Google.
I'm sorry, this just ain't going to be a winner. Now if Google were to incorperate some of these new features such as detailed site info that might be a good thing.
I wonder, is there any way one could setup a dummy machine between your "CPU" and the internet to trick this software into thinking it's sending out spam? Some kind of dummy MTA that responds to all outbound port 25 requests and "accepts" all emails.
It would be fantastic! Take the spammers money and have all their spam flow into a big blackhole. This has definite possibilities....
I wonder, is there any way one could setup a dummy machine between your "CPU" and the internet to trick this software into thinking it's sending out spam? Some kind of dummy MTA that responds to all outbound port 25 requests and "accepts" all emails.
It would be fantastic! Take the spammers money and have all their spam flow into a big blackhole. This has possibilities....
If I had known design patterns that worked.... why would I share them? This is one area where closed source is definitely favourable, Dawinian if you will....
That would be my suggestion as well. Why should you pay for SMS on your personal cell phone (oh I know, you probably have a package plan, but technically you are still paying for it) for work? Do you own any stock in this company? If not, then why use your personal funds to help them?
I had a similar setup at my old office, but made the following business case:
You could either pay for a pager for me which is a one way communication medium
OR
You could give me the equivilent towards my personal cellphone bill plus any airtime I rack up for company business
The equivilent came to the price of the unlimited SMS package. And fortunately using the Penguin OS the servers rarely went down ( 1 per month), so it was pennies from heaven. I was happy, they had someone watching over their machines, it all worked well. Actually since midnight calls would usually be fixed via ssh from home I also had them pay a chunk of my ADSL bill... I was afterall using it for business purposes.
Of course I also made it clear that if it did page me at 2:30am I would take a half day in lieu of my sleepy time.
As others have said, if you just make a business case usually you can convince them of many things. Afterall, I was up against a penny pinching manager when negotiating all of this.
But once one hits we'll be safe again for another 100,000 years, right? ;)
Sounds to me more like XP Reinstalled...
No, more Like Windows XP Rebooted....
Timed of bad governance, check out The Moderates.
Err, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it Windows XP Rebooted?
Tired of bad governance, check out The Moderates.
Oh... you mean like the idea seen in Earth: Final Conflict with the Global?
:)
They used to scan those over an object all the time. Ever since that show first came out I've wanted one.
Hmm, makes me wonder how long until M$ comes out with some cutsie mascot.
;)
And I can see the commercial for Windows Longhorn now.... Heather Graham laying across an oversized Windows box.... now that's sex appeal!
I wonder how long it will take someone at MIT or some other tech university to figure out if I put all the Macs located on or around a college campus I could or University could make it's self a mini-Super Computer for very few dollars.
:)
We did this 6 months ago when we were first beta testing XGrid. I never had the opportunity to personally play with it, but a grid of a hundred EMacs was a pretty good start to a mini-supercomputer I was told.
Oh good, you mean I can actually talk about XGrid now after signing an NDA over 6 months ago? :)
;)
We had the second installation of XGrid, the only other group using it at the time was NASA. I haven't had much time to play with it personally but we had our coop do some genetic sequence analysis using it and he was quite impressed. Plus the speedometer-like gauge measuring performance just looks soooo cool.
Umm, Sun is very actively selling their new Xeon based systems currently as well. I actually just installed a V65x last Monday in our cluster.
:)
Of course we won't mention that these machines are just OEM'ed from Intel... I know this because I bought the equivilent of a V60x directly from Intel this fall... for much less then what Sun charges.
What the hell is new about this? This type of hybrid vehicle has been around for years.
The most common are Diesel-electric railroad engines. However over the years the idea of Diesel-electric has been used in buses and cars. There is nothing novel about this "invention".
..and has been /.'ed once or twice..
:)
/.'ed until he emailed me. I went to check my email (via pine) and the console was as responsive as usual.
:)
You mean two or three times now.
And it's my poor server that has to bare the burden.... but so far it's held up fairly well each time. Pretty good for a celeron 1.7GHz w/ 256M.
However this time was particularly bad because of it being a series of essays. I just increased the number of instances of Apache by 66% and doubled the number of requests before a child dies. That seems to have brought some responsiveness back.
Funny thing is I didn't even know he was
For the geeks who enjoy technical detail... it's running on an Inspire cube PC, one of those little cubes with a mini-ATX in it. Shows you don't see a lot of horse power to serve static content.
Whoa, everyone is talking broadband when replying to this post... I just assumed when I saw "200 hours/month" it meant dialup... who measures broadband in hours? Broadband is always connected.... hell, I always have an ssh window open to my home machine from work.
:)
Alright, broadband limits... Telus here explicitly states it's limit for bandwidth usage, however I have never heard of it being enforced. Hell, I usually go over my "limit" every month - not that they tell you how much you've used.
Shaw (or Rogers) won't tell you the limit, won't tell you what's acceptable, and won't tell you how much you've used. And they do send those nasty letters saying you've exceeded your limit.
I think I'll stick with Telus for now.