Why should it stop? So you can live in a country that monopolizes technical knowledge?
Suppose India outlaws software today and no one in India writes another line of code. The rest of the world still competes with North America. The technology to outsource remotely now exists.
Nobody has job security in areas that are fully defined. A lot of software development jobs are like that. Fully defined jobs should tend to earn the minimum wage at the limit.
Everyone needs to try harder to do something new. Technology is supposed to help us reach new heights. Isn't that supposed to create more jobs?
Is there a suite of benchmarks that I can obtain with little cost? I don't trust these performance claims. Computers should demonstrate their power with a wide variety of well known problems.
I also like seeing the MHz go higher because in the end that's what you need to improve performance on a given architecture.
I know an e-machines AMD 2500+ running as a server. So far so good, but I'm watching it. Computers have really improved qualitywise. I think consumer awareness helps.
The biggest thing I noticed besides processing speed is hard drive speed. Some people I know have some 1700 MHz systems they bought about 3 years ago. I see the disk drives appear a lot faster now, and it makes a big difference to upgrade later. I bought a computer a year later, and the disks are a lot faster. Now, I don't really need an extra 500 MHz, although I can use an extra 50000 MHz.
Aren't we supposed to feel liberated by the ever deflating cost of computers and computer operations? The Internet is supposed to make us so much more productive.
There are so many problems that need to be solved. People are starting to feel liberated with technology. Look at the Internet, digital cameras, e-mail.
We need to encourage the use of technology not take advantage of people. Computer people who need work would find a lot more if people generally feel comfortable with computers doing more.
I find this such a pathetic comment on education and business.
Look at all the people in school. When they graduate they should be able to cure diseases or invent spaceships. Look at all these people thinking they can just bank on their respectability and take over jobs doable by dumbasses.
Maybe we're looking at famine, war, disease the wrong way.
Surely, if we can significantly reduce famine, war, disease through technological advancement, we will come to a collective intelligence able to handle asteroids too. This is like showing that a certain problem is solvable in polynomial time implies P = NP.
Clearly the market is most poised for 64 bit when the RAM cost is low enough to justify a larger address space. A few months ago retailers don't want to say your computer costs $5000+ because it has 16 Gb. And what good is all that RAM if it is slow RAM?
In fact I'm watching a process running through slow RAM on a 2-year old machine right now. It's not swapping even though I have 256 Mb, a princely amount 3+ years ago. I like the power of not swapping but big RAM brings even bigger ambitions so big RAM has to be fast RAM.
I think it's time to let us see the code officially. Malicious people are likely to insert trojans into any leaked code. This goes beyond "buyer beware"; it will give Microsoft a bad name if Microsoft does not help people protect themselves.
We are repeatedly hearing about how difficult it is to find work. We have to convince the peope with the money to invest it in custom technology. Have we lost the innovative drive that has carried us so far? Computer prices have plunged and people have just gotten used to waiting for prices to drop even more on everything.
IT departments are just cranking out front ends for glorified addition machines. People shove tons of information into computers and what do the computers generate? Sums and differences with a few other statistical values. Big fat hairy deal. Let this kind of work go to India.
The human mind would go crazy if all it did was add and subtract. Naturally computers should produce smarter results too. People have massive I/O bandwidth and they have to think more complexly than current software in order to cope with the environment.
Let's install this kind of bandwidth into machines. And let's make machines do something really valuable or distinctive all by themselves without any need for human control, like discover a cure for a disease or invent a better mousetrap.
Many machines are computerized today. They are computer controllable or at least able to communicate with computers. IT people should endeavor to automate these machines more or bridge gaps between machines that have limited/nonexistent computer interfaces. The peanut butter jar should be computerized perhaps with a robotic knife to spread it and a wireless link to report how many slices you are eating while trying to lose 45 lb.
People do too much in their lives. How can anyone enjoy life if they have to figure out how to find a better job? Computers should be assigned this task. Just adding and subtracting does not give enough information. The results should be interpreted already and machines should point out what information is lacking as well as how to get it.
How would anyone know where you are working? You can be anywhere in the world and just say you are working in India. In fact you can impersonate 200 Indian programmers while writing code in Miami.
I want to contribute to the chemistry book! I haven't studied chemistry for years but I think I will need it soon. What better review than to write some book material, eh?
Please tell me how to explain, discuss, and describe experimental chemistry theory and techniques. I have almost zero experimenal experience because I studied electrical engineering and computers. I want to write comprehensively about all the chemistry equipment and how to use them to obtain various results.
Why do textbooks cost so much? There must be some value right? So read them and educate yourself. Don't bother matriculating anywhere.
It's time to open source fundamental knowledge anyways. What's the point of having the Internet unless we all put the knowledge required for earning university degrees online? MIT's OpenCourseWare is a fine start but now we all do it ourselves.Wikipedia is an example of our will to make knowledge freely available. Let's go to the next level by tracing the paths through our reasoning and knowledge.
MSFT got rich on selling the same product that Linus gives away for free
I bought a PC in 1997. There was some difficulty installing some devices but most devices worked. I wouldn't have dreamed of installing most devices for Linux. Microsoft has put a lot of effort into making PC components compatible. Now I don't worry about being able to install anything in Windows.
We have the feeling that Microsoft is motivated to maintain its standards of service. There is little doubt that open source will continue to improve but if there is a lot of expense involved to develop a new feature it becomes iffy whether anyone will do it for free.
if you're an IT geek, when it comes to corporate politics, your kung fu is weak. Period. Accept it
I do not accept this. Computers are supposed to do work better. Computer people are supposed to make this happen.
Computer people should do more than creating glorified adding machines.
Perform your duties as enumerated in your job description
My ass.
That is exactly why IT is going nowhere.
IT should not take the lazy route of buying packages, wrapping them in fancy interfaces, and patching them with intercommunicating routines.
Automate The company exists and profits by doing something. Coerce computers into doing more and more of this work. Don't just write software to support data entry. The software should replace the work that people are doing. Most people these days in this conservative business atmosphere can't possibly be doing something so extraordinary and creative that no one ever did the work before. People follow tried and trued repetitive formulas.
Consolidate companies. There are too many little companies competing. Bring companies together and automate to handle the increased customer load.
The thing is, it's inevitable. There are few companies doing it here and there. The day is coming when companies can't compete without massive automation.
Don't say you need 2 million in new computers without explaining why that would drive profit up
Shouldn't 2 million buy a lot of competition crushing computing? It seems natural.
This was one of the premises of the dot com bubble. However, there was too much sizzle and not enough steak.
Just imagine - what could be done with an extra 2 million strictly to be used for new innovation in business computing?
Then again, this kind of spending can cause major upheavals in a company - too much at one time. It may be better to spend small amounts to figure out how much it costs to do something and commit more if there is promise.
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Why should it stop? So you can live in a country that monopolizes technical knowledge?
Suppose India outlaws software today and no one in India writes another line of code. The rest of the world still competes with North America. The technology to outsource remotely now exists.
Nobody has job security in areas that are fully defined. A lot of software development jobs are like that. Fully defined jobs should tend to earn the minimum wage at the limit.
Everyone needs to try harder to do something new. Technology is supposed to help us reach new heights. Isn't that supposed to create more jobs?
Is there a suite of benchmarks that I can obtain with little cost? I don't trust these performance claims. Computers should demonstrate their power with a wide variety of well known problems.
I also like seeing the MHz go higher because in the end that's what you need to improve performance on a given architecture.
I know an e-machines AMD 2500+ running as a server. So far so good, but I'm watching it. Computers have really improved qualitywise. I think consumer awareness helps.
If your trusty P166 isn't too slow.
The biggest thing I noticed besides processing speed is hard drive speed. Some people I know have some 1700 MHz systems they bought about 3 years ago. I see the disk drives appear a lot faster now, and it makes a big difference to upgrade later. I bought a computer a year later, and the disks are a lot faster. Now, I don't really need an extra 500 MHz, although I can use an extra 50000 MHz.
A better defense would be to develop something that can be launched to intercept planet killers even given 1 day of notice
Any economic incentive for space stations would be helpful
What I would rather see is publishers selling all their books first published more than, say 5 years ago, in a standard electronic format
Aren't we supposed to feel liberated by the ever deflating cost of computers and computer operations? The Internet is supposed to make us so much more productive.
There are so many problems that need to be solved. People are starting to feel liberated with technology. Look at the Internet, digital cameras, e-mail.
We need to encourage the use of technology not take advantage of people. Computer people who need work would find a lot more if people generally feel comfortable with computers doing more.
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I find this such a pathetic comment on education and business.
Look at all the people in school. When they graduate they should be able to cure diseases or invent spaceships. Look at all these people thinking they can just bank on their respectability and take over jobs doable by dumbasses.
That is just selfish and cowardly.
Maybe we're looking at famine, war, disease the wrong way.
Surely, if we can significantly reduce famine, war, disease through technological advancement, we will come to a collective intelligence able to handle asteroids too. This is like showing that a certain problem is solvable in polynomial time implies P = NP.
Buildings are protected by large objects outside against suicide bomb trucks.
We can put a number of large massive objects in several orbits around earth to deflect incoming asteroids.
Naturally these objects can double as space stations or observatories.
The bulk of the mass for these objects can be composed of missiles for shooting the fastest asteroids.
Does that sound like big engineering? For a pretty big problem plus a hefty factor of safety, we need a big solution.
Real driving involves seeing many things. Tablet PCs can't even read my handwriting if I write programming instructions.
There's also backtracking in case you can't find your way through a maze or roadblock.
Not to mention being able to ask for directions, finding fuel or requesting service.
How much brute force speed in terms of TFLOPS would be required?
Save more by printing less.
How much do you print? Is it easier to distribute info to machines directly?
Clearly the market is most poised for 64 bit when
the RAM cost is low enough to justify a larger address space. A few months ago retailers don't want to say your computer costs $5000+ because it has 16 Gb. And what good is all that RAM if it is slow RAM?
In fact I'm watching a process running through slow RAM on a 2-year old machine right now. It's not swapping even though I have 256 Mb, a princely amount 3+ years ago. I like the power of not swapping but big RAM brings even bigger ambitions so big RAM has to be fast RAM.
40E6 lines of code = 40E9 bytes
That is 1E3 bytes per line!!!!
Code like that should be released for the sake of art.
40 Gb source????? whoaa
What does it take to run a pc?
I think it's time to let us see the code officially. Malicious people are likely to insert trojans into any leaked code. This goes beyond "buyer beware"; it will give Microsoft a bad name if Microsoft does not help people protect themselves.
Someone tracking your location? They can't if you scatter your stuff around the world. Pauli exclusion principle in reverse.
We are repeatedly hearing about how difficult it is to find work. We have to convince the peope with the money to invest it in custom technology. Have we lost the innovative drive that has carried us so far? Computer prices have plunged and people have just gotten used to waiting for prices to drop even more on everything.
IT departments are just cranking out front ends for glorified addition machines. People shove tons of information into computers and what do the computers generate? Sums and differences with a few other statistical values. Big fat hairy deal. Let this kind of work go to India.
The human mind would go crazy if all it did was add and subtract. Naturally computers should produce smarter results too. People have massive I/O bandwidth and they have to think more complexly than current software in order to cope with the environment.
Let's install this kind of bandwidth into machines. And let's make machines do something really valuable or distinctive all by themselves without any need for human control, like discover a cure for a disease or invent a better mousetrap.
Many machines are computerized today. They are computer controllable or at least able to communicate with computers. IT people should endeavor to automate these machines more or bridge gaps between machines that have limited/nonexistent computer interfaces. The peanut butter jar should be computerized perhaps with a robotic knife to spread it and a wireless link to report how many slices you are eating while trying to lose 45 lb.
People do too much in their lives. How can anyone enjoy life if they have to figure out how to find a better job? Computers should be assigned this task. Just adding and subtracting does not give enough information. The results should be interpreted already and machines should point out what information is lacking as well as how to get it.
How would anyone know where you are working? You can be anywhere in the world and just say you are working in India. In fact you can impersonate 200 Indian programmers while writing code in Miami.
I want to contribute to the chemistry book! I haven't studied chemistry for years but I think I will need it soon. What better review than to write some book material, eh?
Please tell me how to explain, discuss, and describe experimental chemistry theory and techniques. I have almost zero experimenal experience because I studied electrical engineering and computers. I want to write comprehensively about all the chemistry equipment and how to use them to obtain various results.
Why do textbooks cost so much? There must be some value right? So read them and educate yourself. Don't bother matriculating anywhere.
It's time to open source fundamental knowledge anyways. What's the point of having the Internet unless we all put the knowledge required for earning university degrees online? MIT's OpenCourseWare is a fine start but now we all do it ourselves. Wikipedia is an example of our will to make knowledge freely available. Let's go to the next level by tracing the paths through our reasoning and knowledge.
MSFT got rich on selling the same product that Linus gives away for free
I bought a PC in 1997. There was some difficulty installing some devices but most devices worked. I wouldn't have dreamed of installing most devices for Linux. Microsoft has put a lot of effort into making PC components compatible. Now I don't worry about being able to install anything in Windows.
We have the feeling that Microsoft is motivated to maintain its standards of service. There is little doubt that open source will continue to improve but if there is a lot of expense involved to develop a new feature it becomes iffy whether anyone will do it for free.
if you're an IT geek, when it comes to corporate politics, your kung fu is weak. Period. Accept it
I do not accept this. Computers are supposed to do work better. Computer people are supposed to make this happen.
Computer people should do more than creating glorified adding machines.
Perform your duties as enumerated in your job description
My ass.
That is exactly why IT is going nowhere.
IT should not take the lazy route of buying packages, wrapping them in fancy interfaces, and patching them with intercommunicating routines.
Automate The company exists and profits by doing something. Coerce computers into doing more and more of this work. Don't just write software to support data entry. The software should replace the work that people are doing. Most people these days in this conservative business atmosphere can't possibly be doing something so extraordinary and creative that no one ever did the work before. People follow tried and trued repetitive formulas.
Consolidate companies. There are too many little companies competing. Bring companies together and automate to handle the increased customer load.
The thing is, it's inevitable. There are few companies doing it here and there. The day is coming when companies can't compete without massive automation.
Don't say you need 2 million in new computers without explaining why that would drive profit up
Shouldn't 2 million buy a lot of competition crushing computing? It seems natural.
This was one of the premises of the dot com bubble. However, there was too much sizzle and not enough steak.
Just imagine - what could be done with an extra 2 million strictly to be used for new innovation in business computing?
Then again, this kind of spending can cause major upheavals in a company - too much at one time. It may be better to spend small amounts to figure out how much it costs to do something and commit more if there is promise.