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I applaud you if you follow through...that is how projects get started. There might be alot of money in it and there will almost certaily be alot of satisfaction in it.
"Joe user must become accustomed to it." in order for linux to be great.
Funny it seems every year linux does indeed become more mainstream. And yeah there are some more Joe users out there starting to use it. Linux is extremly popular with teenagers and other rebelious types. I hate to say this to all the nay sayers, but linux is making some serious headway. I mean shit I read about or hear about linux almost daily now...back when I started using it there were very very few people we even knew what it was...now damn near everyone that knows anything about computers or tech has heard of linux.
I totally agree. I wish that as a high school student I would have realized that by and large most of my teachers were the complete fuck offs in college. Instead I believed that they were some sort of intellectual GODS...LOL
First I would like to point out the obvious to everyone...your Ph.D. in theoretical physics does not make you an expert on the entire field of theoretical physics...second your assertion that a unified field theory would only help for calculating things in the first second of the big bang leads me to believe that you do not in fact even have an undergrad degree in theoretical physics...
And sorry...but any way you put your job (if you really are a quant analyst) is to simply (ok complexly) determine how you can better the odds of you company making more money that the other company. Yes econimcs has it's place...but your benifits will only help the people of this generation...a theoretical physicist could change the world...and no you will never change the world with a new economic theory.
I have built a great mysql data base from the stock investor pro database...chech the aaii.com web site.
Also if you are relaly interested then check out the motely fool mechanical investor discussion board....there are some pretty serious people on the board and many that have web based access to the same database I have. It is free to read, but costs to join....if you are into it then the cost is worthwwhile.
www.fool.com
Then go to discusion boards...and look for mechanical invesing.
nod. Man/Woman after my own heart! Heck I might even take a 100 year period and try that mediation think that buddhists have been talking about for so long....he..oh well fun to dream...back to work slave boy!
I call bullshit...either that or you have no clue about how to write optimized C++ code. I gaurantee that I can match you fps to fps with you using C and me using C++.
All or your execution time is spend rendering the cube which you are almost certainly linking to an outside library such as openGL. In the event that you are writing all your 3D routines I will still match you fps to fps by simplying writing object-less linear algebra routine...which most people do any way.
HA! Ok...perhaps learning basic linux is easier than learning basic calculus, but to say that preogramming linux is easier than calculas is total BS. Calculus is really not all that hard. My biggest problem with learning math was never having it applied. Grad school and on the job training as a computational chemist enlightened me quit a bit. Calc. and math in general are no different than writing algorithms...same exact thought process. Once I learned to apply the same thought process to math as I did to building computational algorithms not only did my math skills increase, but so did my algorithm skills...abviously anyone who takes a spell checker to my post will realize that my spelling skills did not increase.
I really don't want to sound synical here, but I hardly consider open source software to be one of the most talented R&D departments on the planet.
R&D results in new inventions. This is an area were we in the open source world are certainly lacking. Yeah it happens (bit torrent) , but not as often as reverse engineering, which is cool, but I don 't classify as R&D. Perhaps the devil is in the definition.
just my wrothless two cents worth.
Also remember IBM is only doing this to sell more hardware. The closer they push the cost of software to zero the more IT revenue flows to them for hardware and services.
well I think that is a little extreme. The whole uptime arguments started around the same time as the rampant blue screens of death. Back then it was cool and kosher to brag about uptime...because it actually meant something. But like you and the others have mentioned it doesn't matter if your computer is up and running for 365 days( I have had a computer..personal...that I almost reached 1 year with). What always mattered to me was that it was always up and running when I needed it. Yeah my linux box at work stay's up and running pretty much until a power outage...my windows box needs to be rebooted about once every 1-2 weeks...so what. Oh the agony of pushing the power buttong once every week...shit I remember having to do this several times a day with 98.
"it is hard to trust a genetic algorithm at run time"
Having developed several applications which rely an GA's I would have to agree with that statement. However someone could opimizing several scenarios with a GA and then having the schedular check for the closest scenario and then apply the parameters most appropriate for that scenario.
I would wager that if the world switched to linux tommorrow then next week we would see a fairly large number of new exploits. Would it be as many as windows...or would they be as damaging? I don't know. But I do believe that being open source would allow the said exploits to be fixed within a couple of weeks of discovery and certainly the next kernel release would be much safer. just my guess tho.
I personally agree with you whole heartedly. As soon as processor speed comes to a halt C++/C/assemble programmers will once again be in the lime light...unfortunately so will FORTRAN...ick.
Java people get so defensive. They would of course still have their place...just not as big as it is now.
I work as a computational chemst by day. I do a significant amount of programming at work and I still come home and code on my own projects. I believe that those who love to program simple love to program. Work sometimes becomes work but at home it is all play.
Indeed I would have to agree with you. Why don't we as americans spend less time bitching and more time doing something creative. Out code your indian brethren if you must....but shut up about how they aren't up to par...you all know it is complete bullshit.
The only thing America truely has that "most" of the rest of the world does not is a culture that spurs creativity. whithout creativity we are nothing. So go be creative. Dream the next new technology...becuase if you dont' someone will and with the vast majority of the worlds population outside our borders it is likely that it WILL come from a country like india or china..
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I applaud you if you follow through...that is how projects get started. There might be alot of money in it and there will almost certaily be alot of satisfaction in it.
Good luck to you.
Actually every year what I hear is
"Joe user must become accustomed to it." in order for linux to be great.
Funny it seems every year linux does indeed become more mainstream. And yeah there are some more Joe users out there starting to use it. Linux is extremly popular with teenagers and other rebelious types. I hate to say this to all the nay sayers, but linux is making some serious headway. I mean shit I read about or hear about linux almost daily now...back when I started using it there were very very few people we even knew what it was...now damn near everyone that knows anything about computers or tech has heard of linux.
I totally agree. I wish that as a high school student I would have realized that by and large most of my teachers were the complete fuck offs in college. Instead I believed that they were some sort of intellectual GODS...LOL
"though in-between the lines you can read at the end that he also thinks a single g5-cpu workstation would 'smoke' x86's..."
and?????
First I would like to point out the obvious to everyone...your Ph.D. in theoretical physics does not make you an expert on the entire field of theoretical physics...second your assertion that a unified field theory would only help for calculating things in the first second of the big bang leads me to believe that you do not in fact even have an undergrad degree in theoretical physics...
And sorry...but any way you put your job (if you really are a quant analyst) is to simply (ok complexly) determine how you can better the odds of you company making more money that the other company. Yes econimcs has it's place...but your benifits will only help the people of this generation...a theoretical physicist could change the world...and no you will never change the world with a new economic theory.
I have built a great mysql data base from the stock investor pro database...chech the aaii.com web site.
Also if you are relaly interested then check out the motely fool mechanical investor discussion board....there are some pretty serious people on the board and many that have web based access to the same database I have. It is free to read, but costs to join....if you are into it then the cost is worthwwhile.
www.fool.com
Then go to discusion boards...and look for mechanical invesing.
Cheers and good luck
nod. Man/Woman after my own heart! Heck I might even take a 100 year period and try that mediation think that buddhists have been talking about for so long....he..oh well fun to dream...back to work slave boy!
My solution is that anyone who accepts immortatily agree to never reproduce.
I am not sure if you are the bigges idiot ever....or the funniest person alive.
I call bullshit...either that or you have no clue about how to write optimized C++ code. I gaurantee that I can match you fps to fps with you using C and me using C++.
All or your execution time is spend rendering the cube which you are almost certainly linking to an outside library such as openGL. In the event that you are writing all your 3D routines I will still match you fps to fps by simplying writing object-less linear algebra routine...which most people do any way.
Freak! Sick Sick Freak!
HA! Ok...perhaps learning basic linux is easier than learning basic calculus, but to say that preogramming linux is easier than calculas is total BS. Calculus is really not all that hard. My biggest problem with learning math was never having it applied. Grad school and on the job training as a computational chemist enlightened me quit a bit. Calc. and math in general are no different than writing algorithms...same exact thought process. Once I learned to apply the same thought process to math as I did to building computational algorithms not only did my math skills increase, but so did my algorithm skills...abviously anyone who takes a spell checker to my post will realize that my spelling skills did not increase.
Redundant? How-so...this guy/gal at least compared the time lost to someting relavent as opposed to others.
I really don't want to sound synical here, but I hardly consider open source software to be one of the most talented R&D departments on the planet.
R&D results in new inventions. This is an area were we in the open source world are certainly lacking. Yeah it happens (bit torrent) , but not as often as reverse engineering, which is cool, but I don 't classify as R&D. Perhaps the devil is in the definition.
just my wrothless two cents worth.
Also remember IBM is only doing this to sell more hardware. The closer they push the cost of software to zero the more IT revenue flows to them for hardware and services.
well I think that is a little extreme. The whole uptime arguments started around the same time as the rampant blue screens of death. Back then it was cool and kosher to brag about uptime...because it actually meant something. But like you and the others have mentioned it doesn't matter if your computer is up and running for 365 days( I have had a computer..personal...that I almost reached 1 year with). What always mattered to me was that it was always up and running when I needed it. Yeah my linux box at work stay's up and running pretty much until a power outage...my windows box needs to be rebooted about once every 1-2 weeks...so what. Oh the agony of pushing the power buttong once every week...shit I remember having to do this several times a day with 98.
just MHO
"it is hard to trust a genetic algorithm at run time"
Having developed several applications which rely an GA's I would have to agree with that statement. However someone could opimizing several scenarios with a GA and then having the schedular check for the closest scenario and then apply the parameters most appropriate for that scenario.
GA's a pretty trivial to code. So very little complexity is added.
I would wager that if the world switched to linux tommorrow then next week we would see a fairly large number of new exploits. Would it be as many as windows...or would they be as damaging? I don't know. But I do believe that being open source would allow the said exploits to be fixed within a couple of weeks of discovery and certainly the next kernel release would be much safer. just my guess tho.
I personally agree with you whole heartedly. As soon as processor speed comes to a halt C++/C/assemble programmers will once again be in the lime light...unfortunately so will FORTRAN...ick.
Java people get so defensive. They would of course still have their place...just not as big as it is now.
I work as a computational chemst by day. I do a significant amount of programming at work and I still come home and code on my own projects. I believe that those who love to program simple love to program. Work sometimes becomes work but at home it is all play.
Damn! Why do I never have mod points when I read some funny shit like!
"After an elusive secret society of slashdot users uses it for a frikkin earth-blasting-laser that is"
--you do of course realize that our society will now have to eliminate you!
"An A4-size panel sewn onto the back of a jacket and costing less than 10 euros would charge a mobile phone during a summer stroll."
I don't wear a jacket in the summer.
Sounds totally cool tho
"Plus, the difference in work ethics between Asians and Americans makes Asians much more attractive hires any day of the week."
bullshit...total bullshit
Indeed I would have to agree with you. Why don't we as americans spend less time bitching and more time doing something creative. Out code your indian brethren if you must....but shut up about how they aren't up to par...you all know it is complete bullshit.
The only thing America truely has that "most" of the rest of the world does not is a culture that spurs creativity. whithout creativity we are nothing. So go be creative. Dream the next new technology...becuase if you dont' someone will and with the vast majority of the worlds population outside our borders it is likely that it WILL come from a country like india or china..
Get better, more creative or shut up.
cost...at least until it becomes very very common place.