If you are in the US it's not that simple. Sure, it's easy to fake a script for Penicillin, but any Scheduled drugs require a DEA number that the pharmacist will authorize before filling the prescription. The system is not really designed to prevent one-off frauds, however, it's designed to catch abuse (doctors selling scripts) and wider fraud (someone pushing fake scripts all over town).
Another thing to remember is that Ohio is a Concealed Cary state. With all the high-profile shootings at schools (if I were an administrator at the school) I'd be more worried that the players would come up against someone who didn't know it was a game and was trying to Save The World.
Ok, you failed your history test. While it true that several moron in the US government sent a bunch of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps the fact that some of the most decorated units of the war were JA units has escaped you. They served with valor and bravery for their country, even when it had wronged them so grievously.
The other thing is, the real reason that Israeli-Arabs don't have to serve in the IDF is to protect them. If they had to serve beyond the green line their families would be killed for their "betrayal". Spend some time in Haifa and talk to the people.
Don't worry citizens, all you have to do is trust your government and obey the law. Then you can be assured that when the government asks questions, it's not about you. Because, as we all know, the FBI only makes requests about Bad Guys. The are from the Executive Branch, after all, and it's only the Judicial branch that feels you are "innocent until proven guilty".
That is not entirely true. While the US President is the Commander in Chief of the US Military, the ability to wage war was curtailed by the War Powers Act. This means that the US President can order the troops to follow any legal order, s/he cannot wage war without approval from Congress. This is important, because the approval was not meant to be a rubber stamp.
I just want to clear up a common misunderstanding: The US President is NOT the Leader of the Congress. The Congress represents an important check to Executive Branch. You cannot use a corporate metaphor (unless you buy into the Unitary Executive idea that the Bushites are so fond of), because it's not the same. The US President is NOT a CEO, s/he is not a leader in any authoritative sense outside of executive authority.
I am an MBA: it's not just the money. No matter what the Slashdot-gestalt says. However, you have already indicated in your post that the projects have been sold without regard for user experience. That could mean a lot of things, but for you (unless your ready to do research on the market position of your products, what the target market wants in a project, etc) that means your management does not feel that user experience contributes to the value of the product. That, by the way, means that you do not contribute to the value of the product. You could do the research and demonstrate to the Powers That Be that you could reposition your product and enjoy some kind of sustainable competitive advantage by making your products actually usable, or you could update the resume and enjoy a new life in the Offworld Colonies (A Chance to Begin Again).
There are a _LOT_ of places that want good UE people (Yahoo just put out, like, a zillion jobops this weekend), you should go to them. You will be happier and your current employer will not be impacted.
Please do not do what you've asked about doing. Instead, pick up a copy of Paper Prototyping at http://www.paperprototyping.com/ then read it, and then you will save yourself a huge amount of time (much more than the time you take to understand the concept).
I like their pricing a great deal. It's much, much, much cheaper than many of the alternatives (notable the Sun one) AND you do not have to build your apps to use some proprietary IPC that's no good outside of their cluster.
For example, lets say I had a MPICH (or even a custom) application that I wanted to run. I'm just some joe schoe, so I can't use the cluster in my (academic) department. I can run my application for one hour using 1000 "computers" for about $100 USD. That's pretty good. It would cost me $1000 to use the Sun N1 stuff AND I would have to use the N1 grid-engine to develop my app.
Can't wait to see what comes out of the Beta. People give Amazon a bad rap because they're not Google, but make no mistake: they are innovators too.
If you enclose your gear in an airtight box it still might get colder than you would like. You can just put a light bulb in the box (wattage would vary depending on the size of the box) attached to a thermostat. Light bulbs work just as well as a heating coil, and you can use photoresisters to instrument the box and tell you when the bulb burns out.
You can even run the thing with a digital thermometer, BASICstamp (and board) and photo-resister, you can run the whole thing from an embedded system and be comfortable with the reliability, even. And you get a neat project.
Yeah, but you can use Turbo codes to achieve near Shannon limit, and you don't have to worry too much about the addition of the ECC. Remember kids: study that math, you never know when information theory can suddenly pay off.
First, ask yourself why you want to port existing code to a new language? Presumably, the people who are writing the Matlab code have a facility with Matlab and are subject matter experts that are doing the heavy lifting (algorithmically speaking). Are the C++ coders the same people? If they're not, can you afford to spend the time/staff to do the porting? Should the original code even be in Matlab in the first place?
You can call matlab libraries from C++ code, which would seem to be the best of both worlds. Then you wouldn't have to port anything.
Lastly, this is not the kind of question that will get answered well on Slashdot. People who have never used matlab will make assumptions and not understand that it is very unlikely that C++ will have the kind of simulation and and capabilities that Matlab does. Besides, a lot of the time Matlab people (scientists, engineers, quants, etc) may be comfortable working Matlab but not C++, so you do what you can to make it possible for them to work. Also, the suggestion that Mathworks will raise pricing and hold your work hostage is laughable: They already do that, their pricing is crazy.
You, my friend, have been watching too many Prime-Time news specials.
It is NOT easy to hit an aircraft with a rifle. This is why anti-aircraft guns are machine guns or cannon. On approach, a 747 is traveling quite fast (around 170 knots, or 314 kph). It has four engines. A Barrett.50 cal has a 10 round clip. That means you have 2 rounds per engine, plus two rounds. The recoil on that rifle is PROFOUND. You probably couldn't shoot down a CRJ-6000 effectively with one of these, let alone an inbound heavy.
Also, Since the effective range of a B.50 is 2000 meters (2 km), you would have about 22 seconds to make all eight shots in the best conditions. That may seem like a lot, but it's not. Especially considering your target is moving erratically (turbulence), is far away (you have to begin shooting at the edge of the range of your weapon), and people are going to notice this firearm being discharged.
And this is with a.50 cal, not even a.223 (the effective range of which is _way_ less than 2000 meters). Think about it: if you could shoot stuff down with.223, why even issue MANPADs? Your average Jihadi would just use his trusty AK-47-like weapon.
Why be afraid? The world is dangerous, but fear of someone shooting down a jet with a pop-gun doesn't help anybody.
True enough, but I can steal your mobile and call that number. Then when the Suede Denim Secret Police come knocking they sure won't be knocking on my door.
The other problem is that shortwave radio recievers are incriminating devices in some dark places that you would want to have spies in. Cell phones pretty much universally are not.
Nethack has some of the best AI in any game, hands down. More games could learn from Nethack how to have creatures that are smart (like Jubelix, or a shopkeeper you have stolen from) and other actors (like pets) that do what you want them to, mostly, but still have enough brains to make gameplay fun.
Come on, seriously now: do you honestly thing that the programmers who work on Google Earth and/or Search Quality are competing for the same jobs as someone who maintains the software behind the parallelized OS? As a programmer and sometimes manager in this software industry (I guess that's what you'd call it, these days my code is mostly report-generation and accounting software, but that's another story), I can tell you often server programmers couldn't care less what application programmers do (and vice verse), but management knows that BOTH may be important.
Kudos for you for graduating from a top school. Given the fact that your academic expertise is far beyond mine (I graduated with a literature degree from a crappy school), you probably understand the subject better than I do. However, you might want to look at http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html for more info on what the parallelized OS thingy they've got going on in there and (if you do) I think it might change your mind about whether or not it is 'mundane'.
A-level people want to do what is best for everybody (for themselves and the company). If Google keeps rewarding people who make the most contributions, then code maintainers will be rewarded. Maintenance is considered a low-tier job at hierarchical companies where only people working on the 'wow' products are rewarded.
The whole point of googles flat structure makes it possible to have maintenance be a sexy task within the organization by allowing rewards to go where they should go too. I would say that 'most companies' create the hierarchy because they don't have the guts to manage the way that google does. I've worked at far too many companies where the disconnect between espoused values and actual values create the kind of situation you describe (ie maintenance coding is a loser job, best avoided or gotten promoted out of).
very orthodox investors will continue to buy as long as GOOG continues to make money. The recent growth in earnings means that GOOG is still GOOD. Size doens't matter nearly as much as culture. If GOOG can maintain their culture, they can maintain everything else. Culture is the Most Important Thing.
More products and more inovation means more dollars. more dollars means hap-hap-happy investors. now if only Google would hire me.
You know what I found even better than Etheral: Nethack.
Yep, a user complains, I monitor the situation in Nethack for a while. Call the user back, ask if the problem has resolved itself and 9 times out of 10, it has.
Nethack has gotten me out of some pretty tight spots. Just, a word of advice, don't eat your pet.
You misunderstand the nature of competitive advantage. Everyone knows what Walmarts competitive advantage is, but that doesn't mean you can start your own company based on that and expect to compete with them. The same is true of Google.
They risk nothing by talking about what they do, the fact that they CAN do it is what's important. A lot of that is culture. MS probably could offer a laundry service and it would not be the same, because the cultural differences in the companies won't allow it to be the same.
Google benefits because they will be better able to attract people by being very clear about their philosophy. BTW, if you compare early Apple with current Google, you'll see a lot of similarities. Culture is everything.
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot Ocaml and Arc.
What you are looking for then is the AlphaSmart Dana http://www.alphasmart.com/products/dana-w_In.html which is all of this and more.
If you are in the US it's not that simple. Sure, it's easy to fake a script for Penicillin, but any Scheduled drugs require a DEA number that the pharmacist will authorize before filling the prescription. The system is not really designed to prevent one-off frauds, however, it's designed to catch abuse (doctors selling scripts) and wider fraud (someone pushing fake scripts all over town).
Another thing to remember is that Ohio is a Concealed Cary state. With all the high-profile shootings at schools (if I were an administrator at the school) I'd be more worried that the players would come up against someone who didn't know it was a game and was trying to Save The World.
Ok, you failed your history test. While it true that several moron in the US government sent a bunch of Japanese-Americans to concentration camps the fact that some of the most decorated units of the war were JA units has escaped you. They served with valor and bravery for their country, even when it had wronged them so grievously.
The other thing is, the real reason that Israeli-Arabs don't have to serve in the IDF is to protect them. If they had to serve beyond the green line their families would be killed for their "betrayal". Spend some time in Haifa and talk to the people.
No he's not. The "missing" dimension is just wrapped up very tightly into the two that you can see. See, M-Theory works!
Don't worry citizens, all you have to do is trust your government and obey the law. Then you can be assured that when the government asks questions, it's not about you. Because, as we all know, the FBI only makes requests about Bad Guys. The are from the Executive Branch, after all, and it's only the Judicial branch that feels you are "innocent until proven guilty".
That is not entirely true. While the US President is the Commander in Chief of the US Military, the ability to wage war was curtailed by the War Powers Act. This means that the US President can order the troops to follow any legal order, s/he cannot wage war without approval from Congress. This is important, because the approval was not meant to be a rubber stamp.
I just want to clear up a common misunderstanding: The US President is NOT the Leader of the Congress. The Congress represents an important check to Executive Branch. You cannot use a corporate metaphor (unless you buy into the Unitary Executive idea that the Bushites are so fond of), because it's not the same. The US President is NOT a CEO, s/he is not a leader in any authoritative sense outside of executive authority.
You should just update your resume.
I am an MBA: it's not just the money. No matter what the Slashdot-gestalt says. However, you have already indicated in your post that the projects have been sold without regard for user experience. That could mean a lot of things, but for you (unless your ready to do research on the market position of your products, what the target market wants in a project, etc) that means your management does not feel that user experience contributes to the value of the product. That, by the way, means that you do not contribute to the value of the product. You could do the research and demonstrate to the Powers That Be that you could reposition your product and enjoy some kind of sustainable competitive advantage by making your products actually usable, or you could update the resume and enjoy a new life in the Offworld Colonies (A Chance to Begin Again).
There are a _LOT_ of places that want good UE people (Yahoo just put out, like, a zillion jobops this weekend), you should go to them. You will be happier and your current employer will not be impacted.
-jbs
Please do not do what you've asked about doing. Instead, pick up a copy of Paper Prototyping at http://www.paperprototyping.com/ then read it, and then you will save yourself a huge amount of time (much more than the time you take to understand the concept).
Your users will thank you.
I like their pricing a great deal. It's much, much, much cheaper than many of the alternatives (notable the Sun one) AND you do not have to build your apps to use some proprietary IPC that's no good outside of their cluster.
For example, lets say I had a MPICH (or even a custom) application that I wanted to run. I'm just some joe schoe, so I
can't use the cluster in my (academic) department. I can run my application for one hour using 1000 "computers" for about $100 USD.
That's pretty good. It would cost me $1000 to use the Sun N1 stuff AND I would have to use the N1 grid-engine to develop my app.
Can't wait to see what comes out of the Beta. People give Amazon a bad rap because they're not Google, but make no mistake: they are innovators too.
If you enclose your gear in an airtight box it still might get colder than you would like. You can just put a light bulb in the box (wattage would vary depending on the size of the box) attached to a thermostat. Light bulbs work just as well as a heating coil, and you can use photoresisters to instrument the box and tell you when the bulb burns out.
n entshop/sensors.asp
You can even run the thing with a digital thermometer, BASICstamp (and board) and photo-resister, you can run the whole thing
from an embedded system and be comfortable with the reliability, even. And you get a neat project.
http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/products/compo
Yeah, but you can use Turbo codes to achieve near Shannon limit, and you don't have to worry too much about the addition of the ECC. Remember kids: study that math, you never know when information theory can suddenly pay off.
Just to help (and so you don't think I made Turbo Codes up -- it's sounds like I did 'cause it's such a bad name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_code
First, ask yourself why you want to port existing code to a new language? Presumably, the people who are writing
the Matlab code have a facility with Matlab and are subject matter experts that are doing the heavy lifting (algorithmically speaking). Are the C++ coders the same people? If they're not, can you afford to spend the time/staff to do the porting? Should the
original code even be in Matlab in the first place?
You can call matlab libraries from C++ code, which would seem to be the best of both worlds. Then you wouldn't have to port anything.
Lastly, this is not the kind of question that will get answered well on Slashdot. People who have never used matlab will make assumptions and not understand that it is very unlikely that C++ will have the kind of simulation and and capabilities that Matlab does. Besides, a lot of the time Matlab people (scientists, engineers, quants, etc) may be comfortable working Matlab but not C++, so you do what you can to make it possible for them to work. Also, the suggestion that Mathworks will raise pricing and hold your work hostage is laughable: They already do that, their pricing is crazy.
You, my friend, have been watching too many Prime-Time news specials.
.50 cal has a 10 round clip. That means you have 2 rounds per engine, plus two rounds. The recoil on that rifle
.50 cal, not even a .223 (the effective range of which is _way_ less than 2000 meters). Think about it: if you could shoot stuff down with .223, why even issue MANPADs? Your average Jihadi would just use his trusty AK-47-like weapon.
It is NOT easy to hit an aircraft with a rifle. This is why anti-aircraft guns are
machine guns or cannon. On approach, a 747 is traveling quite fast (around 170 knots, or 314 kph). It has four engines.
A Barrett
is PROFOUND. You probably couldn't shoot down a CRJ-6000 effectively with one of these, let alone an
inbound heavy.
Also, Since the effective range of a B.50 is 2000 meters (2 km), you would have about 22 seconds to make all eight shots in the best conditions. That may seem like a lot, but it's not. Especially considering your target is moving erratically (turbulence), is far away
(you have to begin shooting at the edge of the range of your weapon), and people are going to notice this firearm being discharged.
And this is with a
Why be afraid? The world is dangerous, but fear of someone shooting down a jet with a pop-gun doesn't help anybody.
True enough, but I can steal your mobile and call that number. Then when the Suede Denim Secret Police come knocking they sure won't be knocking on my door.
The other problem is that shortwave radio recievers are incriminating devices in some dark places that you would want to have spies in. Cell phones pretty much universally are not.
Nethack has some of the best AI in any game, hands down. More games could learn from Nethack how to have creatures that are smart (like Jubelix, or a shopkeeper you have stolen from) and other actors (like pets) that do what you want them to, mostly, but still have enough brains to make gameplay fun.
Nethack: AI that's Int: 20 in my book.
Filemaker is the solution you are looking for. Much of what you have requested has pre-built packages and companies like Soliant Consulting or Excelisys or you could even do it yourself
I guess I'm nuts then.
Come on, seriously now: do you honestly thing that the programmers who work on Google Earth and/or Search Quality are competing for the same jobs as someone who maintains the software behind the parallelized OS? As a programmer and sometimes manager in this software industry (I guess that's what you'd call it, these days my code is mostly report-generation and accounting software, but that's another story), I can tell you often server programmers couldn't care less what application programmers do (and vice verse), but management knows that BOTH may be important.
Kudos for you for graduating from a top school. Given the fact that your academic expertise is far beyond mine (I graduated with a literature degree from a crappy school), you probably understand the subject better than I do. However, you might want to look at http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
for more info on what the parallelized OS thingy they've got going on in there and (if you do) I think it might change your mind about whether or not it is 'mundane'.
A-level people want to do what is best for everybody (for themselves and the company). If Google keeps rewarding people who make the most contributions, then code maintainers will be rewarded. Maintenance is considered a low-tier job at hierarchical companies where only people working on the 'wow' products are rewarded.
The whole point of googles flat structure makes it possible to have maintenance be a sexy task within the organization by allowing rewards to go where they should go too. I would say that 'most companies' create the hierarchy because they don't have the guts to manage the way that google does.
I've worked at far too many companies where the disconnect between espoused values and actual values create the kind of situation you describe (ie maintenance coding is a loser job, best avoided or gotten promoted out of).
very orthodox investors will continue to buy as long as GOOG continues to make money. The recent growth in earnings means that GOOG is still GOOD. Size doens't matter nearly as much as culture. If GOOG can maintain their culture, they can maintain everything else. Culture is the Most Important Thing.
More products and more inovation means more dollars. more dollars means hap-hap-happy investors. now if only Google would hire me.
You know what I found even better than Etheral: Nethack.
Yep, a user complains, I monitor the situation in Nethack for a while. Call the
user back, ask if the problem has resolved itself and 9 times out of 10, it has.
Nethack has gotten me out of some pretty tight spots. Just, a word of advice, don't eat your pet.
You are correct about the lighter bullet problem. This is traditionally solved by using a Sabot and a sub-calibre penetrater.
You misunderstand the nature of competitive advantage. Everyone knows what Walmarts competitive advantage is, but that doesn't mean you can start your own company based on that and expect to compete with them. The same is true of Google.
They risk nothing by talking about what they do, the fact that they CAN do it is what's important. A lot of that is culture. MS probably could offer a laundry service and it would not be the same, because the cultural differences in the companies won't allow it to be the same.
Google benefits because they will be better able to attract people by being very clear about their philosophy. BTW, if you compare early Apple with current Google, you'll see a lot of similarities. Culture is everything.