None the less, if you think about someone who was born in say, 1860, and died in 1940, and think of the change they experienced, and then go say, 1920 to 2000, you will see what I mean.
The former one went from a Dickonson society with short life expectations, lack of hygene, etc, to the 50's, with very many discontinuous radical changes.
The latter one saw what was essentially continuous incremental change.
The late 1800's and early 1900's saw much more radical change than we experience. Electricity, Sanitation, Railroads, Cars, Airplanes, Telephones, Iron Steam Ships, Antibiotics, Physics and Math Revolutions (Relativity, QM), etc. Life when from Medivial to Modern in something like 50 years.
What we experience is trivial in comparison.
Of course if those cheap nano-assemblers appear than I will take it all back.
>Exactly what is up there in space that is so >important we're willing to sink billions upon >billions of dollars into it?
I'm sorry to have to be so blunt, but this is a mind bogglingly stupid comment. Everything that is valuable on earth exists, or potentially exists in unlimited quantities off the planet. And the only thing that makes it uneconomic to obtain is the lack of cheap access to outer space.
But I feel silly even stating that because it is so obvious...
I read something that said that young people esp. in Korea, prefer IM to e-mail.
Having said that, e-mail is an easier medium to deal with a large amount of people. IM is just that, Instant, and if you need to manage contacts with more than 10 people daily (and I deal with more like 30 a day, in all timezones), IM just doesn't cut it.
There was a period of time when geeks were in terribly short supply, and they were over appreciated. Now it is more like it was in the early-mid 90's and before.
Having said that, I noticed that dice has 69000+ jobs on offer now, down from 120k at the peak, and up from 23k at the trough.
If it goes over 80k, I would say that the god daz are coming back.
Seriously, I hated writing. Now I have a very very bright son who often scores badly (well, not too bad actually) on tests because he hates all the writing you have to do on them. Rarely gets anything wrong. Often doesn't finish. Lucky that the teachers know he is bright.
Loves reading though. And playing on computers.
I think schools have not come to terms with modern society. Handwriting is barely useful today, computer skills are way back there. Being creative on computers is not even on the radar, but that is where the jackpot is today and tomorrow.
I write a lot of C#, and I almost never use unmanaged code.
But sometimes I do. I would start far fewer projects with C# if I couldn't be sure I could get out of that particular straightjacket.
That being said, I am starting to have my doubts about writing huge programs without giving a thought to memory management. It is fun, and it is fast, but there is no way back...
That is not the "reason". That just means that the equation breaks down there. That happens lots in physics.
The "real reason" for not allowing FTL is a philosophical one. If you can go faster than the speed of light (or send something that fast) then you can send signals into the past (do the math). Some of those could change the past, therfore something must prevent you from sending those particular ones.
So either we have free will (in the sense of being able to perform any experiement we want) but we can't "go faster than light", or we don't and then maybe we can do FTL.
If we don't have free will, then all of physics is placed in doubt, since it relies on the assumption that we can do those experiments.
Sure, and now you can get Linux with StarOffice now with all the "stability" and most of the usability of MS Office and hardware for like $800.
Trouble is the incentive to save $1250 per user is a lot less than saving $8000 per user. And if it really becomes a problem MS can always cut prices, seeing as they have an 85% profit margin on Office.
This trivializes a complex issue. 14 Euros isn't much when you think about the "damage" your typical PC does to the IP economy. Software patents come from America, copywrite violation fees come from Europe.
The more dynamic American economy is a more difficult target, who could argue that Europe is too restrictive compared to America, and it is certainly hurting their growth.
OTOH, to my experience Americans drink as much as "eurpeans" (excluding Russians), and they are reducing smoking just as much as "mericans", although they are perhaps a decade behind.
Notice that the "mericans" are at least 10 years ahead in calorie consumption, but the "eurpeans" are catching up here too.
I spend a lot of time in both places, I don't think the picture is that simple.
Unless you are in with a really cool group of computer people already, I would transfer.
Connections are everything in life (unfortunately), and you are more likely to get better ones in a better school.
Perhaps more objectively: ask your current profs where their ex-students are working and what they are working on. Then ask the same of your new potential school's profs. Pick the ones where you would rather be.
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None the less, if you think about someone who was born in say, 1860, and died in 1940, and think of the change they experienced, and then go say, 1920 to 2000, you will see what I mean.
The former one went from a Dickonson society with short life expectations, lack of hygene, etc, to the 50's, with very many discontinuous radical changes.
The latter one saw what was essentially continuous incremental change.
The late 1800's and early 1900's saw much more radical change than we experience. Electricity, Sanitation, Railroads, Cars, Airplanes, Telephones, Iron Steam Ships, Antibiotics, Physics and Math Revolutions (Relativity, QM), etc. Life when from Medivial to Modern in something like 50 years.
What we experience is trivial in comparison.
Of course if those cheap nano-assemblers appear than I will take it all back.
>Exactly what is up there in space that is so >important we're willing to sink billions upon >billions of dollars into it?
I'm sorry to have to be so blunt, but this is a mind bogglingly stupid comment. Everything that is valuable on earth exists, or potentially exists in unlimited quantities off the planet. And the only thing that makes it uneconomic to obtain is the lack of cheap access to outer space.
But I feel silly even stating that because it is so obvious...
I read something that said that young people esp. in Korea, prefer IM to e-mail.
Having said that, e-mail is an easier medium to deal with a large amount of people. IM is just that, Instant, and if you need to manage
contacts with more than 10 people daily (and I deal with more like 30 a day, in all timezones), IM just doesn't cut it.
Reducing Spam makes people use MS computers (and Exchange) more (as opposed to the alternatives).
:)
- Investing in spam filter technology reduces spam.
- Sueing spammers also reduces spam.
The optimal strategy will be to persue both strategies till they yield the same rate of spam reduction.
And that rate should be determined by whatever they think they earn on spam reduction.
My bet is that someone at MS has done the math.
And it keeps their lawyers sharp, who knows how and when that will come in handy
There was a period of time when geeks were in terribly short supply, and they were over appreciated. Now it is more like it was in the early-mid 90's and before.
:)
Having said that, I noticed that dice has 69000+ jobs on offer now, down from 120k at the peak, and up from 23k at the trough.
If it goes over 80k, I would say that the god daz are coming back.
Maybe I'll ask for a raise
Seriously, I hated writing. Now I have a very very bright son who often scores badly (well, not too bad actually) on tests because he hates all the writing you have to do on them. Rarely gets anything wrong. Often doesn't finish. Lucky that the teachers know he is bright.
Loves reading though. And playing on computers.
I think schools have not come to terms with modern society. Handwriting is barely useful today, computer skills are way back there. Being creative on computers is not even on the radar, but that is where the jackpot is today and tomorrow.
Strange. It is usually the pro-MS posts that use AC...
Agreed. Have they ever had a bad quarter in 25 years? What other 50000 person company has a valuation per employee of 5 million dollars?
I wish my company had this kind of "impending doom".
"Now most business units are facing a 10% budget cut in order to finance Carly's kiss off"
How do you make that math work? Last I looked HP was a 20 billion dollar company. Did she get a 2 billion dollar kiss off?
And they love "sixth sense" stuff. Knowledge without having to work for it.
Of course technically you are right, all C# is managed.
But we are also talking of the dangers of "unsafe" code (pointer manipiulation), which you can write in C#.
I write a lot of C#, and I almost never use unmanaged code.
But sometimes I do. I would start far fewer projects with C# if I couldn't be sure I could get out of that particular straightjacket.
That being said, I am starting to have my doubts about writing huge programs without giving a thought to memory management. It is fun, and it is fast, but there is no way back...
He has created one of the biggest companies of all time, and made it almost unassailable.
There is nothing technical he can do that one (or a dozen) of his employees can't do 10 times better and faster.
He has (probably) saved millions of lives through his malaria research.
He has a nice wife and three kids. He has a really cool house.
What else is there left to do?
Maybe he could try being a Linux Kernel Hacker...
You guys are good at keeping secrets...
That is not the "reason". That just means that the equation breaks down there. That happens lots in physics.
The "real reason" for not allowing FTL is a philosophical one. If you can go faster than the speed of light (or send something that fast) then you can send signals into the past (do the math). Some of those could change the past, therfore something must prevent you from sending those particular ones.
So either we have free will (in the sense of being able to perform any experiement we want) but we can't "go faster than light", or we don't and then maybe we can do FTL.
If we don't have free will, then all of physics is placed in doubt, since it relies on the assumption that we can do those experiments.
Sure, and now you can get Linux with StarOffice now with all the "stability" and most of the usability of MS Office and hardware for like $800.
Trouble is the incentive to save $1250 per user is a lot less than saving $8000 per user. And if it really becomes a problem MS can always cut prices, seeing as they have an 85% profit margin on Office.
MS got their timing right.
AFAIK they don't lay off decent programmers. And they sure employ a lot of them...
Of course you have to like rain if you are going to live near Redmond. And the days of them making programmers rich seem to lie in the past.
Yeah. I blame bush for the bugs in my code...
Can't believe I missed this...
So you can't actually transmit info with QE? (that makes sense when I think about it. All you can do really is look at cats).
The best you can do is exchange a one-time key.
Which does make brute force impossible of course, if your encrpytion technique is any good.
Too bad, that makes the quantum channels in Singularity Sky non-sense.
When they run out of money they will stop.
Of course you have to wonder if such people will ever be fit for economic life.
This trivializes a complex issue. 14 Euros isn't much when you think about the "damage" your typical PC does to the IP economy. Software patents come from America, copywrite violation fees come from Europe.
The more dynamic American economy is a more difficult target, who could argue that Europe is too restrictive compared to America, and it is certainly hurting their growth.
OTOH, to my experience Americans drink as much as "eurpeans" (excluding Russians), and they are reducing smoking just as much as "mericans", although they are perhaps a decade behind.
Notice that the "mericans" are at least 10 years ahead in calorie consumption, but the "eurpeans" are catching up here too.
I spend a lot of time in both places, I don't think the picture is that simple.
If the odds were that large, how come we have been around for like 30k-100k years already?
Still I agree with him, getting humans off the planet (especially their agriculture) would relieve pressure on all the other spieces.
Sounds good. I would like to read it.
Unless you are in with a really cool group of computer people already, I would transfer.
Connections are everything in life (unfortunately), and you are more likely to get better ones in a better school.
Perhaps more objectively: ask your current profs where their ex-students are working and what they are working on. Then ask the same of your new potential school's profs. Pick the ones where you would rather be.