I'll make more money working a "shit job" in the US than as a programmer in India
The point of the article is that this is becoming less and less true. And the question you have to ask yourself is, what is your money worth to you? Your paycheque will go a lot further in India than it will in urban areas of the United States. And how long will you be able to stay sane working a 'shit job' as opposed to a mentally challenging job in your chosen field?
The service-only economy that the US is turning in to can't sustain itself for very long...
The whole point of this article is to show that these linux distributions are fully capable of carrying out every day end-user tasks, and that there currently isn't a problem with worms, viruses, or spyware on Linux. So it most definitely is a compelling reason to give Linux a try, your embracing of a hellish computer experience of patching and babying your computer as opposed to doing real work notwithstanding.
But it's to be expected, as they have the most advanced powerlines going. Remember that little blackout y'all had last Summer? As soon as the loss of power hit the Quebec border the chain reaction was stopped cold by the connections to the Quebec system. People in Ottawa could look across to the bright lights of Hull just next door. This is thanks to the massive rebuilding that was required after the 1998 ice storm.
Having to transmit power from damns way up north down to the south (the longest-distance power lines in the world, i believe) also means they had to learn how to deal with the effects of solar flares on power transmission.
So basically if anybody knows about the issues that affect power lines, it's these guys.
I always wonder how long it takes in any chess thread before someone who thinks they've discovered the lost city of gold pipes up about go. And the answers they get are always the same, it's a totally different problem. We haven't built a robot to play tennis either, tennis is simply a different problem with a much much larger data set, just like go. A chess game with a 19x19 board would send a computer into shock too.
So with this technology you're saying we could have phones that are...cordless? Stop the presses! That's amazing! They'll take over the phone companies' markets for sure with revolutionary ideas like this.
And I'm sure that VT paid full retail for their Apple boxes, too. Riiiight.
Here's where you give some sort of justification for why you say that Apple has diverted a huge chunk of their first shipment of top-end G5s to a project where you think they're subsidizing the cost of the hardware.
What? You don't have an explanation?
Just look at the costs, there's plenty of room above the $3000/machine cost for interconnect technology and extra RAM.
Nice troll, but not true in this case.
You are implying that a writer not using the latest product from Microsoft (or OpenOffice) is somehow a failing on the part of the writer. Yet what does a fancy word processor offer to help the creative process that vi does not? Obviously not enough to convince the article's author, at any rate. He's obviously tried them.
Comparing this phenomenon to the resistance of painters to accept photography as an art form is a false analogy, since the end product is the same whether it was written using MS Word XP or a pencil. Words. With Photography the product was entirely different from a painting. Digital photography is still an immature form compared with traditional film photography, but again, the products are slightly different.
The overwhelming requirement for many writers seems to be lack of distractions. Imagine having to write on a sheet of paper that was already half full of little drawings and icons and blurbs popping up. It would drive me nuts, I can tell you that. This is probably why the article writer prefers the relatively sparse vi interface to MS Word.
Instead of storing the vote electronically, have the voting machine print off your ballot once you've voted, which you would then place into the ballot box.
Increased accessibility and usability, no spoiled / ambiguous ballots, and no chance for loyal party members to control the electronic voting.
... then they aren't working on anything remotely resembling a product. If they were they'd be keeping very quiet about it all.
This article has the tone of GM execs talking about flying cars.
FWIW, Rep. Dennis Kucinich was and is against the PATRIOT Act. He also doesn't stand a chance, but it's good to be thorough.
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Wow, five years and it's still only been around for less than half the time I've been on the Internet. Before that we had webcrawler, which we thought was the shit. Anybody remember webcrawler's old URL? I believe it was http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu. It was kick ass when it came out, like a version of Archie for teh web.
The essence of the "voluntary" dissolution of Be means that this money will not go to a sudden resurrection of the BeOS, as some have thought (foolishly hoped, perhaps).
Actually all the BeOS IP was sold to Palm, Inc (now PalmSource). Be, Inc. was kept in existence as a shell company for the sole purpose of persuing legal action. It didn't have the right to sell or develop BeOS if they wanted to.
Now that it's collected a bit of cash from MS it no longer needs to exist.
Don't you see? Floppy memory is brilliant, they're taking advantage of the cheapest, most readily available storage medium in existence: Trillions and trillions of AOL Floppy disks.
So if I contribute to a car theft by leaving my station wagon in teh driveway in plain view of potential car thieves then I'm the one who gets charged? Only in corporate America...
Microsoft already limits access to msn.com and Hotmail to a handful of browsers. And they have every right to do so, as they own the servers and bandwidth. What's your point?
The point would be, that whether they have a right to do it or not, they're still asses for trying. And if enough people hear about it, hopefully such an action will hae a negative effect on their business and they'll learn. (wishful thinking, I know, but it's either that or start stockpiling weapons for the revolution)
While the AltiVec unit is very impressive, The SSE2 unit on the P4 or the Opteron would have nearly the same performance and cost a whole heck of a lot less (I am betting if this rumor is true at all, then Apple has given the units to the school).
Real world numbers don't bear this out. Check out the Photoshop and other application performance numbers for this. The gcc version used by the SPEC benchmarks used by Apple didn't even take advantage of AltiVec. When accounted for, and any institution making such a purchase would definitely have considered this, the AltiVec-enabled PowerPC chips totally spank x86 and others in number crunching tasks.
What I am wondering is, what OS is this cluster going to run? I mean, have the BSD folks figured out how to scale? No chance it will be OS X...maybe AIX?
An OS doesn't need to 'scale' to be a member of a cluster. It just needs to run the code locally and send the result back to the cluster master node.
A similar thing that introverts due (and geeks are notorious for) is replacing true conversation with being a walking encyclopia. Someone talks about the weather, and the geek goes on to explain strato cumulous clouds. It's not a conversation, it's a plea for attention. "Aren't I clever that I understand clouds".
Not that most reasonably intelligent introverts could stand a typical "how's the weather" small talk for very long. The thing is you always have to know your strenghts and play on those in a way that gets you connected to people. Many geeky types are very good listeners and do know how to ask questions that can get people to think about something in a different way.
The ability to stimulate someone else's mind in the way that they can stimulate their own is an incredibly useful skill. This also far more useful than simply trying to emulate the typical conversations extrovert-types engage in with each other and only end up being frustrated.
The two things to remember are empathy and practice.
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Yeah I'd much rather drink recycled fish urine.
Is go look for the Technodrome.
I'll make more money working a "shit job" in the US than as a programmer in India The point of the article is that this is becoming less and less true. And the question you have to ask yourself is, what is your money worth to you? Your paycheque will go a lot further in India than it will in urban areas of the United States. And how long will you be able to stay sane working a 'shit job' as opposed to a mentally challenging job in your chosen field? The service-only economy that the US is turning in to can't sustain itself for very long...
It's obvious that this could be done, after all the Genesis has Blast Processing
The whole point of this article is to show that these linux distributions are fully capable of carrying out every day end-user tasks, and that there currently isn't a problem with worms, viruses, or spyware on Linux. So it most definitely is a compelling reason to give Linux a try, your embracing of a hellish computer experience of patching and babying your computer as opposed to doing real work notwithstanding.
Exactly, the Rendezvous implementation in iTunes for Windows works flawlessly.
But it's to be expected, as they have the most advanced powerlines going. Remember that little blackout y'all had last Summer? As soon as the loss of power hit the Quebec border the chain reaction was stopped cold by the connections to the Quebec system. People in Ottawa could look across to the bright lights of Hull just next door. This is thanks to the massive rebuilding that was required after the 1998 ice storm. Having to transmit power from damns way up north down to the south (the longest-distance power lines in the world, i believe) also means they had to learn how to deal with the effects of solar flares on power transmission. So basically if anybody knows about the issues that affect power lines, it's these guys.
I always wonder how long it takes in any chess thread before someone who thinks they've discovered the lost city of gold pipes up about go. And the answers they get are always the same, it's a totally different problem. We haven't built a robot to play tennis either, tennis is simply a different problem with a much much larger data set, just like go. A chess game with a 19x19 board would send a computer into shock too.
Couldn't you just say "Memory Hole Dacts Redacted DOJ Memo"
That's pretty much the standard Apple education discount. Put away the tinfoil hat.
So with this technology you're saying we could have phones that are...cordless? Stop the presses! That's amazing! They'll take over the phone companies' markets for sure with revolutionary ideas like this.
Two words. P R Did you look at the cost breakdowns for the hardware vs. the cabling? I thought not. Run along now.
And I'm sure that VT paid full retail for their Apple boxes, too. Riiiight. Here's where you give some sort of justification for why you say that Apple has diverted a huge chunk of their first shipment of top-end G5s to a project where you think they're subsidizing the cost of the hardware. What? You don't have an explanation? Just look at the costs, there's plenty of room above the $3000/machine cost for interconnect technology and extra RAM. Nice troll, but not true in this case.
You are implying that a writer not using the latest product from Microsoft (or OpenOffice) is somehow a failing on the part of the writer. Yet what does a fancy word processor offer to help the creative process that vi does not? Obviously not enough to convince the article's author, at any rate. He's obviously tried them. Comparing this phenomenon to the resistance of painters to accept photography as an art form is a false analogy, since the end product is the same whether it was written using MS Word XP or a pencil. Words. With Photography the product was entirely different from a painting. Digital photography is still an immature form compared with traditional film photography, but again, the products are slightly different.
The overwhelming requirement for many writers seems to be lack of distractions. Imagine having to write on a sheet of paper that was already half full of little drawings and icons and blurbs popping up. It would drive me nuts, I can tell you that. This is probably why the article writer prefers the relatively sparse vi interface to MS Word.
Instead of storing the vote electronically, have the voting machine print off your ballot once you've voted, which you would then place into the ballot box. Increased accessibility and usability, no spoiled / ambiguous ballots, and no chance for loyal party members to control the electronic voting.
... then they aren't working on anything remotely resembling a product. If they were they'd be keeping very quiet about it all. This article has the tone of GM execs talking about flying cars.
... would be that it's a great way for a big country to wave its dick around without having to bomb anyone.
FWIW, Rep. Dennis Kucinich was and is against the PATRIOT Act. He also doesn't stand a chance, but it's good to be thorough.
Wow, five years and it's still only been around for less than half the time I've been on the Internet. Before that we had webcrawler, which we thought was the shit. Anybody remember webcrawler's old URL? I believe it was http://webcrawler.cs.washington.edu. It was kick ass when it came out, like a version of Archie for teh web.
The essence of the "voluntary" dissolution of Be means that this money will not go to a sudden resurrection of the BeOS, as some have thought (foolishly hoped, perhaps).
Actually all the BeOS IP was sold to Palm, Inc (now PalmSource). Be, Inc. was kept in existence as a shell company for the sole purpose of persuing legal action. It didn't have the right to sell or develop BeOS if they wanted to.
Now that it's collected a bit of cash from MS it no longer needs to exist.
Incidentally, senior Be executives seemed to have pulled a NeXT on Palm Inc, taking over the key influence positions at PalmSource.
Don't you see? Floppy memory is brilliant, they're taking advantage of the cheapest, most readily available storage medium in existence: Trillions and trillions of AOL Floppy disks.
So if I contribute to a car theft by leaving my station wagon in teh driveway in plain view of potential car thieves then I'm the one who gets charged? Only in corporate America...
The point would be, that whether they have a right to do it or not, they're still asses for trying. And if enough people hear about it, hopefully such an action will hae a negative effect on their business and they'll learn. (wishful thinking, I know, but it's either that or start stockpiling weapons for the revolution)
While the AltiVec unit is very impressive, The SSE2 unit on the P4 or the Opteron would have nearly the same performance and cost a whole heck of a lot less (I am betting if this rumor is true at all, then Apple has given the units to the school).
Real world numbers don't bear this out. Check out the Photoshop and other application performance numbers for this. The gcc version used by the SPEC benchmarks used by Apple didn't even take advantage of AltiVec. When accounted for, and any institution making such a purchase would definitely have considered this, the AltiVec-enabled PowerPC chips totally spank x86 and others in number crunching tasks.
What I am wondering is, what OS is this cluster going to run? I mean, have the BSD folks figured out how to scale? No chance it will be OS X...maybe AIX?
An OS doesn't need to 'scale' to be a member of a cluster. It just needs to run the code locally and send the result back to the cluster master node.
Not that most reasonably intelligent introverts could stand a typical "how's the weather" small talk for very long. The thing is you always have to know your strenghts and play on those in a way that gets you connected to people. Many geeky types are very good listeners and do know how to ask questions that can get people to think about something in a different way.
The ability to stimulate someone else's mind in the way that they can stimulate their own is an incredibly useful skill. This also far more useful than simply trying to emulate the typical conversations extrovert-types engage in with each other and only end up being frustrated.
The two things to remember are empathy and practice.