I work in the HPC world, and there's plenty of interest for these skills outside of defense and financial. I agree that a lot of it is gov't funded, but locations like NCSA, which are in the process of finalizing acceptance of a huge system from Cray that has GPUs, some of the DOE national labs, or even NASA, are always looking for people like this and have mostly pure scientific agendas. Also, NVidia has been posting a lot lately looking for applications folks.
There's plenty of interesting work, it just takes a little to find it. Check out HPC specific job boards, like the HPCWire Job Bank, for example, or check out the jobs pages of places like NCSA, the DOE labs (LBL, LLNL, etc), NASA, or companies like Cray, NVidia, even Intel, since MIC is coming soon, and will likely be similar to a GPU in how it's programmed.
The article clearly notes (and shows screenshot) that the ads that will be displayed on your news feed are from pages you have liked
Actually, what it says is: "...you must have already Liked Ben & Jerry's Facebook Page, or one of your friends must have interacted with Ben & Jerry's Page."
So you can (and likely will) see ads from a page that your friend liked but you've never visited.
For his part Breton hasn't sent a work email in three years. 'If people want to talk to me, they can come and visit me, call or send me a text message. Emails cannot replace the spoken word.'
From the company's perspective, keeping you on staff costs a lot more than just your salary. Insurance, 401(k), employment taxes, tuition reimbursement, etc, are all "hidden" costs above what they give you on your paycheck.
It's not unreasonable for it to cost an employer 1.5 to 2 times the salary amount for an employee.
I don't like the idea of a contractor overcharging the gov't egregiously, but if their costs are 1.5x the employee's salary, then charging the gov't 2x means they make 1/4 of that amount in "profit," not 1/2.
Yes, any change to how the internet works could increase phishing. But at $185,000 per application for a new TLD, as well as having each application reviewed by a human or committee, this isn't going to be like automating the registration of.com addresses so that in an afternoon, you can register every misspelling of bankofamerica. By no means do I have blind faith in them, but I feel like ICANN will be pretty sure to not allow some random dude in eastern Europe to register.bank.
Yes, yes, everything can increase the risk of cancer in lab rats, and everything increases the risk of phishing, but the barrier for entry is set relatively high here.
PGI makes a CUDA Fortran compiler, but with GPUs, it's not as simple as just recompiling, the code has to be rewritten to take advantage of the accelerator and it's unique architecture.
Fundamentally there's something wrong with a corporation as large as Starbucks being unable or unwilling to pay for models or get permission directly from the person whom they're wanting to feature.
They don't want to pay for anonymous models. They want all your friends to know you go to Starbucks in the hopes that subconsciously it will make them more likely to go next time they want coffee -- they are using the ads as a form of reference -- "I like Starbucks, you should check it out."
As for getting your permission, you opted in to Facebook, so you gave FB permission to do whatever they want with anything you put there. While it feels more intrusive because it's your face on the screen, it's not really much different (on a technical level) than a company selling your email and contact info to affiliates.
Those stories about the great privacy terms violations said that Zynga, via Farmville, was a big offender (the story linked to in the back link to the older Slashdot article says this, in fact).
I wonder if they say "anyone who grabs the UID is punished" b/c that freed up some of their biggest developers, like Zynga, who were doing other bad stuff, but not that bad (for some subjective definition of bad)?
He was a superstar manager. If HP's financial performance suffers without Hurd, they could lose tens of billions of dollars in market cap. If that happens I have to think that investors are going to question whether that $20k was worth it.
I don't disagree that he has been an amazing manager at HP, helping to turn things around after the mess that was Carly Fiorina.
However, how much corruption is too much to overlook? Where do you draw that line? He falsified records to get expenses paid out to himself and/or this woman for $20k, and when caught red-handed, offered to pay it back. Ok, but what if he wasn't caught? Would he have kept doing it? Would he have done it with some other woman? What happens if he wasn't caught until the total was in the millions? Would that have still been ok, because a couple million is still less than tens of billions in market cap?
What is the value of corporate officers acting honestly no matter what?
Do you even know who Jonathan Corbet is? Among other things, he created LWN.net, has been a Linux kernel contributor for longer than that, and has written books on Linux kernel development (for example, the O'Reilly "Linux Device Drivers" book).
He's been on the inside for a long time. This is an opinion you should at least respect, even if in the end you disagree.
/. car analogy warning: would you rather buy a car from a company that treated a recall about the engine exploding and killing you the same way they treat a recall about the light in the trunk failing?
I don't think your analogy is right. Think of it more like the company that produces a car engine and doesn't necessarily make sure every person understands whether it's the engine spontaneously catching fire or the finish peeling. They say "this is the list of shit we fixed" and articulate everything they fixed and how they fixed it.
You bet your ass that Toyota will tell you if it's an exploding problem or a finish peeling problem. The distros, in every update, will tell you what bugs were patched, and their severity, as they should. Should it be up to the kernel team to notify every user, or the distros?
Some people can install their own engine in a car. Some people like to download their own kernels and install them; those people probably can read CHANGELOGs.
The summary was a unclear to me -- these weren't built for or affiliated with the movie in any way, these were simply built based on the specs of the models built for the movie.
So that would mean that every active user would spend almost 1 1/2 hours per day surfing that site. On average. Which falls for me in the "bullshit" category. Just totally unbelievable.
Why is this unbelievable? Just because you don't play games on the site for 3 hours a day doesn't mean other people don't...
"If you're not willing to unblock our ads, we're fairly happy for you to not read the content we work very hard on, or to just stop visiting the site altogether." (in comment thread here)
The people running the cloud and the data center can bicker till the cows come home, but to the customer, someone says, "trust me, I can let you run your apps and store your data better than if you did it yourself," and then *poof*, it's all gone. Since the customer only interfaces with the company managing the cloud services, the customer sees it as a cloud services failure.
If the cloud company wants to tell all their customers, "It wasn't our fuck-up, it was this other company that we pay to store your data," that's kind of a cop-out move in my book, but ok. However, since the customer will still see you the data center people as working for the cloud company (since it likely approached them and sold them the services as itself, not as "a team of companies X, Y, and Z working together, each doing specific tasks as defined below,"), the cloud company still screwed up and the customer is going to take their business somewhere else next time.
You really think that secretaries and accountants and HR reps, who are being forced to sit through a "don't put stupid shit on Facebook because it reflects badly on us" or "don't Twitter about company business or you'll get fired" presentation would understand or care about brute force ssh attacks?
Everyone is being told, "This discussion of social networking and how to protect yourself and the company is mandatory." Don't waste their time with things that they won't understand and are totally off-topic.
I clicked on the two links listed at the bottom of the open letter to Arthur Sulzberger (both are IHT links), and both now are redirected to the correct articles on the www.nytimes.com domain. Has the NYT fixed the problem and no one has just bothered to mention that?
I wonder if the anonymous submitter works for Fire Eagle or byNotes, since there's no content to this story but saying how these sites are going to change the world.
Aside from the fact that my manager sometimes asks me to take my BlackBerry with me when I go on vacation (which I refuse to do), it's really easy to just look at it in the evenings or on weekends to see if there's any mail and check on things. I have taken to setting the automatic power down/power on setting, so I am not tempted to sneak a peak when I walk past it when I'm at home. I never check work mail on the computer in my free time, but the BlackBerry makes it so easy, it doesn't feel like I'm working until I've sunk 2 hours into something that could have waited until the morning.
This is true, but investigating a moving company is relatively straight-forward. Your first stop should be the Better Business Bureau. Go to http://www.bbb.org/ and search for your local Bureau, then you can go to that site and search for the company to see if they have any complaints against them, how quickly it was resolved, etc.
The last time I moved, this helped me to avoid a company that, while offering the best price, had a bad rating due to a bunch of unresolved complaints.
I wholeheartedly agree with parent poster about professional movers. There are a lot of horror stories popping up in this discussion about which rental vans/trucks suck, how they broke down in the Rockies and were stranded for 3 days while replacement parts were flown in from Australia, etc. Get professional movers to move your stuff. They will be 1 billion times better at it than you.
If the company is asking you to move, then you should definitely be asking for them to pay for it (moving expenses). Also, many companies (of a certain minimum size) have agreements with movers/shippers that get their employees discounts -- I have taken advantage of these discounts when working for both tech companies and even a university (it was a Big 10 school, so pretty large).
"There is no substantive news here, just because some disparate groups of advocates have come together for an event reminiscent of the bar scene in the first 'Star Wars' movie." -- AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham
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I work in the HPC world, and there's plenty of interest for these skills outside of defense and financial. I agree that a lot of it is gov't funded, but locations like NCSA, which are in the process of finalizing acceptance of a huge system from Cray that has GPUs, some of the DOE national labs, or even NASA, are always looking for people like this and have mostly pure scientific agendas. Also, NVidia has been posting a lot lately looking for applications folks.
There's plenty of interesting work, it just takes a little to find it. Check out HPC specific job boards, like the HPCWire Job Bank, for example, or check out the jobs pages of places like NCSA, the DOE labs (LBL, LLNL, etc), NASA, or companies like Cray, NVidia, even Intel, since MIC is coming soon, and will likely be similar to a GPU in how it's programmed.
The article clearly notes (and shows screenshot) that the ads that will be displayed on your news feed are from pages you have liked
Actually, what it says is: "...you must have already Liked Ben & Jerry's Facebook Page, or one of your friends must have interacted with Ben & Jerry's Page."
So you can (and likely will) see ads from a page that your friend liked but you've never visited.
For his part Breton hasn't sent a work email in three years. 'If people want to talk to me, they can come and visit me, call or send me a text message. Emails cannot replace the spoken word.'
From the company's perspective, keeping you on staff costs a lot more than just your salary. Insurance, 401(k), employment taxes, tuition reimbursement, etc, are all "hidden" costs above what they give you on your paycheck.
It's not unreasonable for it to cost an employer 1.5 to 2 times the salary amount for an employee.
I don't like the idea of a contractor overcharging the gov't egregiously, but if their costs are 1.5x the employee's salary, then charging the gov't 2x means they make 1/4 of that amount in "profit," not 1/2.
Yes, any change to how the internet works could increase phishing. But at $185,000 per application for a new TLD, as well as having each application reviewed by a human or committee, this isn't going to be like automating the registration of .com addresses so that in an afternoon, you can register every misspelling of bankofamerica. By no means do I have blind faith in them, but I feel like ICANN will be pretty sure to not allow some random dude in eastern Europe to register .bank.
Yes, yes, everything can increase the risk of cancer in lab rats, and everything increases the risk of phishing, but the barrier for entry is set relatively high here.
PGI makes a CUDA Fortran compiler, but with GPUs, it's not as simple as just recompiling, the code has to be rewritten to take advantage of the accelerator and it's unique architecture.
Fundamentally there's something wrong with a corporation as large as Starbucks being unable or unwilling to pay for models or get permission directly from the person whom they're wanting to feature.
They don't want to pay for anonymous models. They want all your friends to know you go to Starbucks in the hopes that subconsciously it will make them more likely to go next time they want coffee -- they are using the ads as a form of reference -- "I like Starbucks, you should check it out."
As for getting your permission, you opted in to Facebook, so you gave FB permission to do whatever they want with anything you put there. While it feels more intrusive because it's your face on the screen, it's not really much different (on a technical level) than a company selling your email and contact info to affiliates.
Those stories about the great privacy terms violations said that Zynga, via Farmville, was a big offender (the story linked to in the back link to the older Slashdot article says this, in fact).
I wonder if they say "anyone who grabs the UID is punished" b/c that freed up some of their biggest developers, like Zynga, who were doing other bad stuff, but not that bad (for some subjective definition of bad)?
He was a superstar manager. If HP's financial performance suffers without Hurd, they could lose tens of billions of dollars in market cap. If that happens I have to think that investors are going to question whether that $20k was worth it.
I don't disagree that he has been an amazing manager at HP, helping to turn things around after the mess that was Carly Fiorina.
However, how much corruption is too much to overlook? Where do you draw that line? He falsified records to get expenses paid out to himself and/or this woman for $20k, and when caught red-handed, offered to pay it back. Ok, but what if he wasn't caught? Would he have kept doing it? Would he have done it with some other woman? What happens if he wasn't caught until the total was in the millions? Would that have still been ok, because a couple million is still less than tens of billions in market cap?
What is the value of corporate officers acting honestly no matter what?
Do you even know who Jonathan Corbet is? Among other things, he created LWN.net, has been a Linux kernel contributor for longer than that, and has written books on Linux kernel development (for example, the O'Reilly "Linux Device Drivers" book).
He's been on the inside for a long time. This is an opinion you should at least respect, even if in the end you disagree.
/. car analogy warning: would you rather buy a car from a company that treated a recall about the engine exploding and killing you the same way they treat a recall about the light in the trunk failing?
I don't think your analogy is right. Think of it more like the company that produces a car engine and doesn't necessarily make sure every person understands whether it's the engine spontaneously catching fire or the finish peeling. They say "this is the list of shit we fixed" and articulate everything they fixed and how they fixed it.
You bet your ass that Toyota will tell you if it's an exploding problem or a finish peeling problem. The distros, in every update, will tell you what bugs were patched, and their severity, as they should. Should it be up to the kernel team to notify every user, or the distros?
Some people can install their own engine in a car. Some people like to download their own kernels and install them; those people probably can read CHANGELOGs.
The summary was a unclear to me -- these weren't built for or affiliated with the movie in any way, these were simply built based on the specs of the models built for the movie.
So that would mean that every active user would spend almost 1 1/2 hours per day surfing that site. On average. Which falls for me in the "bullshit" category. Just totally unbelievable.
Why is this unbelievable? Just because you don't play games on the site for 3 hours a day doesn't mean other people don't...
"If you're not willing to unblock our ads, we're fairly happy for you to not read the content we work very hard on, or to just stop visiting the site altogether." (in comment thread here)
Ok, your terms are acceptable. See ya.
The people running the cloud and the data center can bicker till the cows come home, but to the customer, someone says, "trust me, I can let you run your apps and store your data better than if you did it yourself," and then *poof*, it's all gone. Since the customer only interfaces with the company managing the cloud services, the customer sees it as a cloud services failure.
If the cloud company wants to tell all their customers, "It wasn't our fuck-up, it was this other company that we pay to store your data," that's kind of a cop-out move in my book, but ok. However, since the customer will still see you the data center people as working for the cloud company (since it likely approached them and sold them the services as itself, not as "a team of companies X, Y, and Z working together, each doing specific tasks as defined below,"), the cloud company still screwed up and the customer is going to take their business somewhere else next time.
You really think that secretaries and accountants and HR reps, who are being forced to sit through a "don't put stupid shit on Facebook because it reflects badly on us" or "don't Twitter about company business or you'll get fired" presentation would understand or care about brute force ssh attacks?
Everyone is being told, "This discussion of social networking and how to protect yourself and the company is mandatory." Don't waste their time with things that they won't understand and are totally off-topic.
I clicked on the two links listed at the bottom of the open letter to Arthur Sulzberger (both are IHT links), and both now are redirected to the correct articles on the www.nytimes.com domain. Has the NYT fixed the problem and no one has just bothered to mention that?
Olshanski did not know who the contractor was or what hole specifically was left open, but he assured the hole has since been closed.
"I don't know who it was or what they did or didn't do, but I assure you they fixed it."
And allow me to blow your mind by predicting that one day we will reach 100000 and that therefore we might as well start right now writing it 002008!
No one now writes 100 A.D. as 0100 A.D. Why do you predict they'll change this in the future?
I wonder if the anonymous submitter works for Fire Eagle or byNotes, since there's no content to this story but saying how these sites are going to change the world.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/07/16/
Aside from the fact that my manager sometimes asks me to take my BlackBerry with me when I go on vacation (which I refuse to do), it's really easy to just look at it in the evenings or on weekends to see if there's any mail and check on things. I have taken to setting the automatic power down/power on setting, so I am not tempted to sneak a peak when I walk past it when I'm at home. I never check work mail on the computer in my free time, but the BlackBerry makes it so easy, it doesn't feel like I'm working until I've sunk 2 hours into something that could have waited until the morning.
This is true, but investigating a moving company is relatively straight-forward. Your first stop should be the Better Business Bureau. Go to http://www.bbb.org/ and search for your local Bureau, then you can go to that site and search for the company to see if they have any complaints against them, how quickly it was resolved, etc.
The last time I moved, this helped me to avoid a company that, while offering the best price, had a bad rating due to a bunch of unresolved complaints.
I wholeheartedly agree with parent poster about professional movers. There are a lot of horror stories popping up in this discussion about which rental vans/trucks suck, how they broke down in the Rockies and were stranded for 3 days while replacement parts were flown in from Australia, etc. Get professional movers to move your stuff. They will be 1 billion times better at it than you.
If the company is asking you to move, then you should definitely be asking for them to pay for it (moving expenses). Also, many companies (of a certain minimum size) have agreements with movers/shippers that get their employees discounts -- I have taken advantage of these discounts when working for both tech companies and even a university (it was a Big 10 school, so pretty large).
"There is no substantive news here, just because some disparate groups of advocates have come together for an event reminiscent of the bar scene in the first 'Star Wars' movie." -- AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham
(article at http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/02/28/email. rebellion.ap/index.html)