haha yeah right, "leftists 'r statists" unlike those intelligent, erudite, forward thinking Tea Party Repukes, led by Sarah Palin to that shining city on a hill....
from what I've seen in the UK (as a Yank working at Oxford for 5 yrs) there are a hell of a lot of schools that are trying to give "games" degrees; I've seen all sorts of second & third-tier schools trying to put together programs for a "Bachelor (or Master's) in Game Programming" etc. when obviously with games you just do it yourself, send a hot demo to a big company, or at best they only recruit kids from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and not the University of Sunderland or Thames Valley University's new Bachelor's degree in Computer Games.
still it's a shame that kids fell for the hype of computing & engineering as the great career of the future -- considering that's at the bottom of the list for employment! Also pretty much every other field (liberal arts, etc) you can be "mediocre" and still get a good job or cultivate a career -- but in computing if you're not the top or perceived at the top from a top school, you're pretty much stuck.
well this news is probably why I have such a hell of a time getting a new UK work permit! and UK IT salaries are pretty bad too, I'd say often half what a similar job in the US pays (maybe worse now since the pound has dropped). I worked at Oxford for 5 years and what they hand out as a computer science degree is so theoretical and impractical (in the real world) i.e. little actual programming or software engineering, I can imagine these kids have a tough time.
Still -- it's a bit daunting as the worst jobs (for employment) on the list are what was touted for decades as the careers of the future -- computing & engineering. And for all those claiming that the liberal arts et al majors with less unemployment are all working at McDonalds - you really don't have any evidence of this. Or similarly, desperate IT grads would take McDonalds jobs as well therefore balancing out the numbers.
But it surely couldn't be offshoring or anything, eh?
haha, that's true, I don't know how many mundane companies I've been to that claim their people are the "best and brightest" and are looking for the "same." Even google doesn't really impress me, so they think they get all of these hotshots for what's basically advertising and "payola" scams?
I don't really think they do. They just want the cheapest person possible who they think can do the job.
The interview format these days seems to be a "phone screen" tech grilling coupled with an office grilling by dweebs who think they are superstars. Asking every topic from Stroustrup's C++ book, or old college questions about traversing binary trees is no way to find a superstar.
I think good references and a "network" are far more important for finding ideal candidates & superstars; but what we have now is basically a "meat-market", thanks to (from what I hear) the vast legions of H1Bs who do & say anything on their resume to get an interview & job.
Jeez, just $100 million, let's just not bomb in Iraq for about a half hour, that should save it. What about that $9 billion that went missing in Iraq, that's 90 times as much down the drain!
that 10K isn't quite accurate, they really mean it's really greater than the largest supercomputer available to climate researchers, i.e. the huge bigblue ones are to help Dick Cheney bomb people!;-)
The death penalty is overused in the US, and illegal pretty much anywhere except the Middle East & Asia, but the death penalty for spammers would be a good idea!
I think the embarassment will be how ridiculous the Nixon-era gang and their counterparts in the UK were in that they were wiretapping & doing surveillance on John & Yoko. Of course at the time, when John mentioned this, the usual cast of right-wing apologists were screeching "THE HIPPIE MUST BE ON DRUGS CLAIMING THAT WE ARE SPYING ON HIM!"
Can you imagine Lennon around nowadays? They would do a "Charlie Chaplin" on him a la the McCarthy days.
It seems like a death spiral to me. It's very unlikely that Oracle & M$ & scads of other outsourcers will be selling their software to India & China at the rates they expect US citizens & corporations to pay. I think a better analogy is like the pharmaceutical industry -- Americans still pay outrageous sums for drugs that people in India could buy for pennies as "clones."
It's funny that outsourcing is good enough to undermind American/western jobs, but not good enough to allow Americans to buy cheap medication so that senior citizens end up running up to Canada to fill prescriptions, etc!
Basically -- whenever a "think tank" says "it's good for you!" you know it's good for big biz and bad for the worker!
It depends on the applications you are interested in running within BOINC what their policy is and whether you choose to use them within BOINC. It isn't a "BOINC-level" global decision what is done with the data. I happen to work on climateprediction.net and we will be "BOINC'ing." Our data will be available to the public on many levels to interested parties, e.g. via summaries of the data & results for the general public in the usual literature, or directly for researchers, gov't agencies etc, probably via grid tools (we're building interfaces to the NERC Data Grid, etc).
Does the open source community have available, or the expertise to slap together an enormous climate model that has been used & verified for years? It would be nice, but I don't see one. The UK Met Office has allowed the use of their model, which has been developed & tested over years by many scientists; so that's the best game in town right now.
PS -- there's no "profit" out of this, the data will be available to scientists to use.
It's a 7.5MB download, a 300byte "trickle" of stats per day (or whenver you're online) just to update where you're at in the model, and about a 6-7MB upload at the end of each experiment (say every 4 weeks).
I'd like to know more about what a tough time your employer had filling a job for two years. Where I'm at there was a job vacancy and there were something like 600 resumes mailed in and I assume probably a million emails based on the disgust with the HR dept. The funny thing is still the H1B visa program is setup to take in soemthing like 150,000+ per year.
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If you read between the lines it's that the corporations are good and the workers are bad. Not surprising since he would sell his grandmother's soul to Satan for a buck as he does in marketing his dreck.
Well that's your opinion, right now as an overpaid consultant I get 100 times more calls for implementing Oracle-driven websites with ASP/IIS than with Apache. Maybe it's just a Philly thing.
It was the same thing way back when I was a Borland C++ developer I preferred Borland over MS VC++ but I had one call for Borland vs 1000 for MS. It's like Sony vs Betamax. I don't think picking either one is going to be dramatically different and it comes down to which one is more marketable now.
I think the development is easier & faster in IIS, e.g. using VB or C++ for distributed COM DLL's; or just using ASP pages with ADO or Oracle Objects for OLE. So right there is a big reason I know a lot of places like IIS.
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haha yeah right, "leftists 'r statists" unlike those intelligent, erudite, forward thinking Tea Party Repukes, led by Sarah Palin to that shining city on a hill....
from what I've seen in the UK (as a Yank working at Oxford for 5 yrs) there are a hell of a lot of schools that are trying to give "games" degrees; I've seen all sorts of second & third-tier schools trying to put together programs for a "Bachelor (or Master's) in Game Programming" etc. when obviously with games you just do it yourself, send a hot demo to a big company, or at best they only recruit kids from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and not the University of Sunderland or Thames Valley University's new Bachelor's degree in Computer Games.
still it's a shame that kids fell for the hype of computing & engineering as the great career of the future -- considering that's at the bottom of the list for employment! Also pretty much every other field (liberal arts, etc) you can be "mediocre" and still get a good job or cultivate a career -- but in computing if you're not the top or perceived at the top from a top school, you're pretty much stuck.
well this news is probably why I have such a hell of a time getting a new UK work permit! and UK IT salaries are pretty bad too, I'd say often half what a similar job in the US pays (maybe worse now since the pound has dropped). I worked at Oxford for 5 years and what they hand out as a computer science degree is so theoretical and impractical (in the real world) i.e. little actual programming or software engineering, I can imagine these kids have a tough time.
Still -- it's a bit daunting as the worst jobs (for employment) on the list are what was touted for decades as the careers of the future -- computing & engineering. And for all those claiming that the liberal arts et al majors with less unemployment are all working at McDonalds - you really don't have any evidence of this. Or similarly, desperate IT grads would take McDonalds jobs as well therefore balancing out the numbers.
But it surely couldn't be offshoring or anything, eh?
haha, that's true, I don't know how many mundane companies I've been to that claim their people are the "best and brightest" and are looking for the "same." Even google doesn't really impress me, so they think they get all of these hotshots for what's basically advertising and "payola" scams?
I don't really think they do. They just want the cheapest person possible who they think can do the job.
The interview format these days seems to be a "phone screen" tech grilling coupled with an office grilling by dweebs who think they are superstars. Asking every topic from Stroustrup's C++ book, or old college questions about traversing binary trees is no way to find a superstar.
I think good references and a "network" are far more important for finding ideal candidates & superstars; but what we have now is basically a "meat-market", thanks to (from what I hear) the vast legions of H1Bs who do & say anything on their resume to get an interview & job.
Jeez, just $100 million, let's just not bomb in Iraq for about a half hour, that should save it. What about that $9 billion that went missing in Iraq, that's 90 times as much down the drain!
that 10K isn't quite accurate, they really mean it's really greater than the largest supercomputer available to climate researchers, i.e. the huge bigblue ones are to help Dick Cheney bomb people! ;-)
The BOINC open-source distributed computing main page: http://boinc.berkeley.edu
From there you can see the five projects currently using the BOINC platform (developed by the SETI@Home team)
The death penalty is overused in the US, and illegal pretty much anywhere except the Middle East & Asia, but the death penalty for spammers would be a good idea!
But heaven forfend a soldier speaks out his mind or opinion!
I think the embarassment will be how ridiculous the Nixon-era gang and their counterparts in the UK were in that they were wiretapping & doing surveillance on John & Yoko. Of course at the time, when John mentioned this, the usual cast of right-wing apologists were screeching "THE HIPPIE MUST BE ON DRUGS CLAIMING THAT WE ARE SPYING ON HIM!"
Can you imagine Lennon around nowadays? They would do a "Charlie Chaplin" on him a la the McCarthy days.
The more things change...
It seems like a death spiral to me. It's very unlikely that Oracle & M$ & scads of other outsourcers will be selling their software to India & China at the rates they expect US citizens & corporations to pay. I think a better analogy is like the pharmaceutical industry -- Americans still pay outrageous sums for drugs that people in India could buy for pennies as "clones."
It's funny that outsourcing is good enough to undermind American/western jobs, but not good enough to allow Americans to buy cheap medication so that senior citizens end up running up to Canada to fill prescriptions, etc!
Basically -- whenever a "think tank" says "it's good for you!" you know it's good for big biz and bad for the worker!
they don't like stem cells etc, I wonder if the Bush gang will find something bad about growing bones?
It depends on the applications you are interested in running within BOINC what their policy is and whether you choose to use them within BOINC. It isn't a "BOINC-level" global decision what is done with the data. I happen to work on climateprediction.net and we will be "BOINC'ing." Our data will be available to the public on many levels to interested parties, e.g. via summaries of the data & results for the general public in the usual literature, or directly for researchers, gov't agencies etc, probably via grid tools (we're building interfaces to the NERC Data Grid, etc).
Does the open source community have available, or the expertise to slap together an enormous climate model that has been used & verified for years? It would be nice, but I don't see one. The UK Met Office has allowed the use of their model, which has been developed & tested over years by many scientists; so that's the best game in town right now.
PS -- there's no "profit" out of this, the data will be available to scientists to use.
It's a 7.5MB download, a 300byte "trickle" of stats per day (or whenver you're online) just to update where you're at in the model, and about a 6-7MB upload at the end of each experiment (say every 4 weeks).
...and just gone into computer science as something to fall back on (given the state of the industry/economy today)! ;-)
I'd like to know more about what a tough time your employer had filling a job for two years. Where I'm at there was a job vacancy and there were something like 600 resumes mailed in and I assume probably a million emails based on the disgust with the HR dept. The funny thing is still the H1B visa program is setup to take in soemthing like 150,000+ per year.
If you read between the lines it's that the corporations are good and the workers are bad. Not surprising since he would sell his grandmother's soul to Satan for a buck as he does in marketing his dreck.
Well that's your opinion, right now as an overpaid consultant I get 100 times more calls for implementing Oracle-driven websites with ASP/IIS than with Apache. Maybe it's just a Philly thing. It was the same thing way back when I was a Borland C++ developer I preferred Borland over MS VC++ but I had one call for Borland vs 1000 for MS. It's like Sony vs Betamax. I don't think picking either one is going to be dramatically different and it comes down to which one is more marketable now.
I think the development is easier & faster in IIS, e.g. using VB or C++ for distributed COM DLL's; or just using ASP pages with ADO or Oracle Objects for OLE. So right there is a big reason I know a lot of places like IIS.