While that work looks like it'd be brutally tedious, it sure looks awesome.
If you think *building* them might be tedious, try the tedium of spending years suing a total d-bag who claimed he just rented them for a few months, but in fact continued to collect 7 figure yearly revenue while displaying them... (the rest of the time apparently was just "storage", even if he refused to return them since they were about half of his exhibits).
My brother (maybe somewhat excessively) bought a military surplus compressor-based breathing system (on eBay) for use in his studio (they make rather large fiberglass sculptures/models for museums).
Not only does it do a great job protecting from all of the fiberglass flying around, with i's 50's style military look and the 100' hoses connected to full face masks, it just looks damn cool:)
I call BS. My niece was learning Chinese in a public elementary school in Cambridge, MA.
Call BS about *what*? Most American kids not learning a language until middle or high school? And you base this on a single anecdote of one niece who probably goes to a school where half of the parents are college professors? Come on, you can do better research than that. Sure, there are clearly wealthy public schools, magnet schools, and private schools that start earlier, but that serves a tiny minority of American students, and is the exception rather than the rule.
So, 10 petabytes of data - who cares about the raw source.
Depends on what you're doing. If you're taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower on your vacation you're not really interested in if the CCD on your camera's LSB was a 1 or a 0. If you're taking images from a hyperspectral sensor for scientific purposes the better the accuracy the better (hopefully) your results. It depends on the type of application and how important accuracy is to you (and how accurate your sensor is).
I already pointed this out above, but it you RTFA they clearly say it would be compressed before it's stored. If they don't store the raw data, then, yes, who cares about it because it doesn't exist for analysis. And as I also pointed out, nowhere did it say it was lossy, just that the ~1EB of data compressed to 10PB.
The project is expected to deliver up to an exabyte a day of raw data, compressed to some 10 petabytes of data in images for storage.
They clearly say it's compressed before it's stored. The raw data number itself was pure boast. Besides, no one said it was lossy compression, anyway. Lossless image compression can be very efficient depending on the image.
So, he is predicting in 5 years a phone will have the performance of a (by then) 10 year old console. When, big surprise, my current phone is about equal to a console from 10 years ago.
Reminds me of a Dutch exchange student in middle school. The usual moron was making fun of his accent until a couple of us pointed out that said exchange student was getting an A in English while he was getting a C, even though English was his second language (of about 4).
American students really need to start learning a language much earlier than high school. Even the "gifted" kids who get to start in ~7th grade would be better served by starting a few years earlier...
The project is expected to deliver up to an exabyte a day of raw data, compressed to some 10 petabytes of data in images for storage.
So, 10 petabytes of data - who cares about the raw source. I work for a video streaming company and we have several petabytes of H.264 video. If that were to be uncompressed into 30 FPS 1080p raw data, it would be 50-100x that, so already approaching a couple hundred petabytes. And think of all of the JPEGs out there - why don't we just uncompress all of those for the comparison as well?
A (likely conservative) back of the hand calculation by Google estimated at least 5 exabytes accessible on the Internet (so even the wrong estimate is wrong). I'd imagine a huge percentage of that is compressed video, audio, and images. So, basically 5 exabytes vs 10 petabytes - it's off by 3 orders of magnitude.
No, they aren't. Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Linkedin, Pandora - ie. the likely top 4 tech IPOs of 2011 - are all in the Bay Area, are all hiring like mad and almost all of their employees are local. Other public Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, and MANY others are also hiring left and right and have stocks approching their all time highs.
The job market for tech, especially in the Bay Area, is the best it's been since about 2000. There is most definitely a shortage of engineering talent in the US - especially "homegrown". But the vast majority of Chinese and Indian engineers looking for a job in the US want to become US citizens. Personally, I'd much prefer a new US citizen and employed worker with a masters degree who happens to be Chinese than one born here who can barely graduate high school. The US is still a nice place to live for many - I say increase the H1B quota and drain the brains while we still can!
Now, Hajas’ profile says he is an intern at Apple—the typical entry path for every developer there.
What? Yeah, every Apple developer was an intern first...
Johnny Chung Lee is more of a modder than a hacker (which some would argue is just a matter of shades of grey).
What sort of shade of grey is there for an HCI researcher ripping open a Wii controller??
I guess the problem with the article is more fundamental than that... hackers and modders are fairly equivalent, the problem is NEITHER OF THEM has to imply anything illegal. Sigh.
The title should have been: Google Patents "Censorship" of Annoying Content.
I don't see how this is any different (in application - in implementation maybe) from something like AdBlock, or even the exiting ability to block images, Javascript, etc in a browser's settings. As long as the user has the ability to override it, it's *not* censorship, it's a content filtering feature - one that many people would *like*.
I didn't say "easy", I said easier. And you seem to be measuring "difficult" based on keeping track of a bunch of changing APIs and syntax.
Making sure your Javascript code works on every browser and platform is not as much "difficult" as "tedious". Writing a fast, efficient Javascript engine with generational garbage collection and a just in time native compiler is "difficult".
I have a lot of respect for a good auto mechanic who knows how to work on a huge variety of makes and models, but I still think it's easier to find someone who can fix an engine than someone who can design one.
There are multiple definitions for geek... the "peculiar and unlikeable" definition is when the word is intended as an insult.
I think you missed the point:) That point was that people should either accept that words change meaning (in which case it's stupid to pretend it's some kind of stolen badge of honor for "technical experts" as the article argues) - or they should not, in which case the original meaning was a peculiar and unlikable person such as a circus freak.
Besides, there is no reason it has to be intended as an insult; it was originally meant to describe a type of person (one who tended to eat live animals and poke themselves through the cheek with sharp needles, etc). If you weigh 400 lbs you are "obese" - if that hurts your feelings who's fault is that? In fact, the whole reason geek has become "a badge of honor" is because "the geeks" have embraced it (and it doesn't hurt their reputation in mainstream culture that they sometimes become billionaires;)
"It’s also easier to find Web developers than it is to find native developers." A good programmer shouldn't really care what level he is working in, best practices etc. are fundamentally the same. Every decent programmer I know has dabbled in everything from assembler to javascript, at the very least.
Let's face it - it's easier to find a web developer because web development is easier. I'm sure a lot more primarily C++ programmers have used Javascript than vice-versa. A significant number of "web developers" come from an artistic/graphic design background and have probably never even used a compiler. And that's not a knock on web developers any more than you'd knock a pediatrician for not being a pediatric surgeon...
As long as the fact that she is a history geek makes her "peculiar and unlikable". "Computer nerds" weren't called geeks because they are techie, they were called that because they were also socially maladjusted and shunned, like a circus freak...
If you don't want to get flooded don't live on a fucking flood plain.
Yeah, right. Easier said than done - where do you think most of the staple crops the world eats comes from? If we want to continue to get plentiful and cheap food we have to provide support to the people who take the risks to provide it. Might as well say "if you don't like hurricanes, don't live on the East Coast, if you don't like floods, don't live in the Midwest, and if you don't like earthquakes, don't live on the West Coast". Well, we've pretty much ruled out North America, time to clear out of that continent.:)
I do (generally) agree that people need to realize no one can control everything that happens. I think the problem is that in the past, farmers, etc, have understood that and accepted it, but the more the government steps in with big, expensive projects, the more people want to place blame when something bad happens.
Really, it's the same almost any time humans/governments intervene to try to help - parents now blame the schools instead of themselves when their children fail, patients blame (and sue) doctors when anything goes wrong (despite many of the problems being caused by stupid behaviors or decisions made by the individual). I guess it's just human nature to want to find simple, comprehensible causes for their problems rather than accept that lack of control...
My favorite part is how he ends the article with an Ayn Rand quote. I wish he had just put it at the beginning so I could have just skipped reading the rest.
So, you spend a bunch of time on a private server that may be taken down at the whim of the admin? That seems to be an ever bigger waste of time than playing a MMORPG that gets cancelled (or playing one at all, depending on point of view;)
Not to mention it doesn't sound like much *fun*, anyway... I'd trust Blizzard developers/designers to do a bit better job than some people trying to copy their stuff, not to mention what is most likely a sad sack group of other players on the server. Not really an "MMORPG" at that point, more of an "MORPG"...
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While that work looks like it'd be brutally tedious, it sure looks awesome.
If you think *building* them might be tedious, try the tedium of spending years suing a total d-bag who claimed he just rented them for a few months, but in fact continued to collect 7 figure yearly revenue while displaying them... (the rest of the time apparently was just "storage", even if he refused to return them since they were about half of his exhibits).
http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_195f0578-1da7-11df-8687-001cc4c03286.html
Basically, in artist vs. sleazy businessman in his home town, artist has no chance...
My brother (maybe somewhat excessively) bought a military surplus compressor-based breathing system (on eBay) for use in his studio (they make rather large fiberglass sculptures/models for museums).
Not only does it do a great job protecting from all of the fiberglass flying around, with i's 50's style military look and the 100' hoses connected to full face masks, it just looks damn cool :)
I call BS. My niece was learning Chinese in a public elementary school in Cambridge, MA.
Call BS about *what*? Most American kids not learning a language until middle or high school? And you base this on a single anecdote of one niece who probably goes to a school where half of the parents are college professors? Come on, you can do better research than that. Sure, there are clearly wealthy public schools, magnet schools, and private schools that start earlier, but that serves a tiny minority of American students, and is the exception rather than the rule.
So, 10 petabytes of data - who cares about the raw source.
Depends on what you're doing. If you're taking pictures of the Eiffel Tower on your vacation you're not really interested in if the CCD on your camera's LSB was a 1 or a 0. If you're taking images from a hyperspectral sensor for scientific purposes the better the accuracy the better (hopefully) your results. It depends on the type of application and how important accuracy is to you (and how accurate your sensor is).
I already pointed this out above, but it you RTFA they clearly say it would be compressed before it's stored. If they don't store the raw data, then, yes, who cares about it because it doesn't exist for analysis. And as I also pointed out, nowhere did it say it was lossy, just that the ~1EB of data compressed to 10PB.
It's a specious analogy.
If you RTFA, no it's not.
The project is expected to deliver up to an exabyte a day of raw data, compressed to some 10 petabytes of data in images for storage.
They clearly say it's compressed before it's stored. The raw data number itself was pure boast. Besides, no one said it was lossy compression, anyway. Lossless image compression can be very efficient depending on the image.
So, he is predicting in 5 years a phone will have the performance of a (by then) 10 year old console. When, big surprise, my current phone is about equal to a console from 10 years ago.
Did John just finally discover Moore's Law?
Sorry, no, it doesn't. They are getting closer, but 30 seconds of research show this isn't true.
Reminds me of a Dutch exchange student in middle school. The usual moron was making fun of his accent until a couple of us pointed out that said exchange student was getting an A in English while he was getting a C, even though English was his second language (of about 4).
American students really need to start learning a language much earlier than high school. Even the "gifted" kids who get to start in ~7th grade would be better served by starting a few years earlier...
The project is expected to deliver up to an exabyte a day of raw data, compressed to some 10 petabytes of data in images for storage.
So, 10 petabytes of data - who cares about the raw source. I work for a video streaming company and we have several petabytes of H.264 video. If that were to be uncompressed into 30 FPS 1080p raw data, it would be 50-100x that, so already approaching a couple hundred petabytes. And think of all of the JPEGs out there - why don't we just uncompress all of those for the comparison as well?
A (likely conservative) back of the hand calculation by Google estimated at least 5 exabytes accessible on the Internet (so even the wrong estimate is wrong). I'd imagine a huge percentage of that is compressed video, audio, and images. So, basically 5 exabytes vs 10 petabytes - it's off by 3 orders of magnitude.
Double bah! REAL programmers know (at the time of this post) it's 1310072421.
No, they aren't. Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, Linkedin, Pandora - ie. the likely top 4 tech IPOs of 2011 - are all in the Bay Area, are all hiring like mad and almost all of their employees are local. Other public Silicon Valley companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, and MANY others are also hiring left and right and have stocks approching their all time highs.
The job market for tech, especially in the Bay Area, is the best it's been since about 2000. There is most definitely a shortage of engineering talent in the US - especially "homegrown". But the vast majority of Chinese and Indian engineers looking for a job in the US want to become US citizens. Personally, I'd much prefer a new US citizen and employed worker with a masters degree who happens to be Chinese than one born here who can barely graduate high school. The US is still a nice place to live for many - I say increase the H1B quota and drain the brains while we still can!
Exactly - go ahead and list the top 50 fastest growing tech companies of the last 5 years and I bet 40 of them are in the US.
There are a lot of areas that American industry is hurting, but the tech is NOT one of them.
This article is idiotic.
Now, Hajas’ profile says he is an intern at Apple—the typical entry path for every developer there.
What? Yeah, every Apple developer was an intern first...
Johnny Chung Lee is more of a modder than a hacker (which some would argue is just a matter of shades of grey).
What sort of shade of grey is there for an HCI researcher ripping open a Wii controller??
I guess the problem with the article is more fundamental than that... hackers and modders are fairly equivalent, the problem is NEITHER OF THEM has to imply anything illegal. Sigh.
The title should have been: Google Patents "Censorship" of Annoying Content.
I don't see how this is any different (in application - in implementation maybe) from something like AdBlock, or even the exiting ability to block images, Javascript, etc in a browser's settings. As long as the user has the ability to override it, it's *not* censorship, it's a content filtering feature - one that many people would *like*.
I didn't say "easy", I said easier. And you seem to be measuring "difficult" based on keeping track of a bunch of changing APIs and syntax.
Making sure your Javascript code works on every browser and platform is not as much "difficult" as "tedious". Writing a fast, efficient Javascript engine with generational garbage collection and a just in time native compiler is "difficult".
I have a lot of respect for a good auto mechanic who knows how to work on a huge variety of makes and models, but I still think it's easier to find someone who can fix an engine than someone who can design one.
There are multiple definitions for geek ... the "peculiar and unlikeable" definition is when the word is intended as an insult.
I think you missed the point :) That point was that people should either accept that words change meaning (in which case it's stupid to pretend it's some kind of stolen badge of honor for "technical experts" as the article argues) - or they should not, in which case the original meaning was a peculiar and unlikable person such as a circus freak.
Besides, there is no reason it has to be intended as an insult; it was originally meant to describe a type of person (one who tended to eat live animals and poke themselves through the cheek with sharp needles, etc). If you weigh 400 lbs you are "obese" - if that hurts your feelings who's fault is that? In fact, the whole reason geek has become "a badge of honor" is because "the geeks" have embraced it (and it doesn't hurt their reputation in mainstream culture that they sometimes become billionaires ;)
Like cannibalism!
...to see monkeys aim at an ad campaign.
"It’s also easier to find Web developers than it is to find native developers." A good programmer shouldn't really care what level he is working in, best practices etc. are fundamentally the same. Every decent programmer I know has dabbled in everything from assembler to javascript, at the very least.
Let's face it - it's easier to find a web developer because web development is easier. I'm sure a lot more primarily C++ programmers have used Javascript than vice-versa. A significant number of "web developers" come from an artistic/graphic design background and have probably never even used a compiler. And that's not a knock on web developers any more than you'd knock a pediatrician for not being a pediatric surgeon...
As long as the fact that she is a history geek makes her "peculiar and unlikable". "Computer nerds" weren't called geeks because they are techie, they were called that because they were also socially maladjusted and shunned, like a circus freak...
Excellent point. Anyone here who calls himself a geek but has not actually bitten the head off of a live chicken, please go away.
If you don't want to get flooded don't live on a fucking flood plain.
Yeah, right. Easier said than done - where do you think most of the staple crops the world eats comes from? If we want to continue to get plentiful and cheap food we have to provide support to the people who take the risks to provide it. Might as well say "if you don't like hurricanes, don't live on the East Coast, if you don't like floods, don't live in the Midwest, and if you don't like earthquakes, don't live on the West Coast". Well, we've pretty much ruled out North America, time to clear out of that continent. :)
I do (generally) agree that people need to realize no one can control everything that happens. I think the problem is that in the past, farmers, etc, have understood that and accepted it, but the more the government steps in with big, expensive projects, the more people want to place blame when something bad happens.
Really, it's the same almost any time humans/governments intervene to try to help - parents now blame the schools instead of themselves when their children fail, patients blame (and sue) doctors when anything goes wrong (despite many of the problems being caused by stupid behaviors or decisions made by the individual). I guess it's just human nature to want to find simple, comprehensible causes for their problems rather than accept that lack of control...
My favorite part is how he ends the article with an Ayn Rand quote. I wish he had just put it at the beginning so I could have just skipped reading the rest.
I thought that was in Vice City...
So, you spend a bunch of time on a private server that may be taken down at the whim of the admin? That seems to be an ever bigger waste of time than playing a MMORPG that gets cancelled (or playing one at all, depending on point of view ;)
Not to mention it doesn't sound like much *fun*, anyway... I'd trust Blizzard developers/designers to do a bit better job than some people trying to copy their stuff, not to mention what is most likely a sad sack group of other players on the server. Not really an "MMORPG" at that point, more of an "MORPG"...