Bad plots are very successful in US too. Take, for example, the success of "reality TV". The only themes are greed (the final prize money) and lust (think, all the junk from Fox). Everything else is sort of padded on just like one would pad on a plot line in a pr0n film.
Holy cow, man... You are just willing to believe in only what you want to believe. Ideology is a good thing, but you are extreme and not logical too.
H1B caps were raised around 1999 to address the demands for programmers needed for Y2K stuff (and to inflate the dotcom bubble). It was to go back to previous levels after three years. So, there is no correlation between Bush coming to power and the drop in the quotas.
Furthermore, it is typically the democrats that want the jobs here (unions, etc., have roles in maintaining better conditions for citizens). On the other hand, an industry friendly govt will pay more attention to industry needs (which these days are geared towards "next quarter results").
The technologies of the last 200 years have so far outstripped past human progress that the real action in the coming years/decades/centuries will be the philosophical, moral and political assimilation of technology. We've done an increasintly poor job of it as the pace of advancement has quickened;
Do you mean to suggest that Reality TV, Hum-vees, DRM, 150 year plus copyrights, mini-nukes, "intellectual property rights", and "Fair and Balanced News" aren't the right philosophical and moral ways to utilize technology?
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I would first try to put the things in perspective. NLP is a relatively esoteric field, and most common "techies" wouldn't be so keen on delving into the internals.
You should take a look at posts on Mozilla, KDE, and GNOME, and you will see that people do get behind OSS for reasons other than elitism.
Keeping costs higher so that the industry stays in business is nothing short of charity. It's worse, infact, because the common people will be bearing the burden while the execs of these telco's will be golfing.
This is a very odd society indeed, where a single mother that has to go to two jobs to make ends meet, but corporations can be given a really cool deal.
Something is suspicious about the announcement of a DDOS on a bad day for SCO stock (note that SCOX stock fell quite a bit today). Most likely, it is to divert attention from the real problems (investors speaking up, etc.)
Some of the wall street lemmings will fall for this, just like many/. lemmings went on a limb claiming "oh, c'mon guys, don't let *us all* get into distepute."
There is a high likelihood that one species is at a much more advanced stage than the other. Most likely, we'd be the more advanced ones (primarily due to the age of Sun and earth).
It would be like the pilgrims landing in the US. Complete colonization one way or other. Not much scope for an arms race...
Just to give a perspective, I once went through a linux kernel mailing list archive on google. It was about "using goto." It would be hard to believe, but most of the people, many experts, including Linus himself, patiently answered the questions of a newbie.
In fact, it was the newbie who was pretty rude -- often saying things like, "so and so book says goto's should never be used, so we shouldn't have them in the kernel. Why don't you guys fix it?"
People gave very detailed examples and their explanations makes for very interesting reading.
Now, in a commercial setting, one would often find some manager smiling and saying, "yes, you are right" and change the topic, or sometimes, almost rudely ask for a change in topic. For a casual person, it might seem that the manager is really polished and sophisticated, though it is far from the truth.
I wonder sometimes that whole of America is undergoing "walmart-ization". Here is my theory about dell call centers (complete theory pulling out of thin air):
(1) Dell pays prevaliling wages to call center people (2) Dell wants to cut costs, so moves to India (3) Dell employees get shafted big time (4) Dell ex-employees (or new kids) realize no new jobs are there (5) They are ready to accept much lower wages (6) Viola, Dell moves back the call center
Except a long list of associated technologies. For a non X-pert, the article is just a summary of what is there out there. I was expecting some sort of "this is what the future plans are."
(a) install *everything* -- disk space is not a big issue, and most services are typically not on by default (b) whenever I need something new that I didn't do with linux (e.g. linux exploring Windows neighbourhood -- like Windows' "network places"), I do a quick search on google groups, get some answer in a minute, look at the menus, and it's almost always there (c) most of the important software is avaliable pre-packaged from many places (simple search on google for the relevant package very often results in a quick solution)
I have been using Mandrake 9.2 Beta with NTFS read/write support. I have been fooling around with the NTFS partition a little bit (not heavy i/o though), but it has been holding up very well.
I specifically mentioned mandrake here because the other distro I used, Redhat, didn't have ntfs support on by default (not even read support -- they cite potentital legal issues). Mandrake has NTFS read/write on by default.
I was expecting the summary to read "Gamespy finally acknowledged this guy's feedback and sent a CD for review" -- sort of like hiring a security consultant or something like that.
May be I am over estimating the common sense of companies and people.
I filed a bug in our product, and after about a couple of months, another person filed the same bug. The concerned developer marked my bug as a duplicate of the later bug. I didn't care -- until the numbers of "mean time between bug reporting and fixing" came up as a presentation during our product release.
I think the main advantage is that teachers all over the world have the option of incorporating parts of the MIT notes and curriculum into their classes.
So, if a low end school has a fresh teacher (typically someone who just finished undergrad), he or she can focus on understanding the content and teach it -- avoiding the added burden of creating new course material (which would likely be of inferior quality).
My observation with the linux progress is that the unsupported hardware is typically the latest and greatest hardware.
I have had this experience on a Dell Optiplex with a Serial ATA drive (Redhat 10 beta 1 didn't have the driver support -- "accidentally" left out). The latest redhat kernel builds had it, and I thought, let me wait for a month and get the next release, and lo behold, I have the beta 2 from redhat. Meanwhile, other distros have had the support, so I could have picked any other distro and started off.
Even when the hardware is unsupported, there is often a choice, and the choices aren't bad either.
I agree that $200 - $400 is quite a bit for a lower middle class person, let alone a poor indian. However, the poor do "need" a computer. If not today, tomorrow. At least shared computers, like those in public libraries in US.
The access to latest information (and educational resources) can potentially open the gateway out of the slums.
Generating a lot of repetitive code can be done by the computer, but can't that be taken care of at a layer that the end user need not worry about -- by defining the higher level concepts at the language level?
Here is an example: In Perl, there is a module called Class::ObjectTemplate. It is a template that can be used to define classes. A code can work as follows:
package MyClass; use Class:ObjectTemplate; require exporter; @ISA = ("Class::ObjectTemplate");
attributes("a", "b", "c", "d");
That's it. Now, MyClass has accessor methods, a constructor, and so on...
my $m = MyClass->new(); $m->a("Hello"); my $x = $m->a();
and so on.
The difference between this and the Code Generation utilities is that there is no intermediate code for the programmar to tweak. Everything is right there.
There are many folks that do not even have basic language skills or basic math/science skills. All the relevant information is already out there on the net. Just like, all the roads are there, but there are not many runners.
"Certifications" can never substitute for a good education -- at least at a large scale. A really motivated good student will end up in a good program somewhere.
Same thing with the housing prices and health care costs in the United States. Aritificially inflated -- there is so much land, and the cost of materials is very low too, yet the "city council" gets to decide what and where houses can be built.
Oh, and same shit with "widely used" software too -- the OS and Office tools and a compiler suite cost more than the rest of the system these days.
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Bad plots are very successful in US too. Take, for example, the success of "reality TV". The only themes are greed (the final prize money) and lust (think, all the junk from Fox). Everything else is sort of padded on just like one would pad on a plot line in a pr0n film.
S
Holy cow, man... You are just willing to believe in only what you want to believe. Ideology is a good thing, but you are extreme and not logical too.
H1B caps were raised around 1999 to address the demands for programmers needed for Y2K stuff (and to inflate the dotcom bubble). It was to go back to previous levels after three years. So, there is no correlation between Bush coming to power and the drop in the quotas.
Furthermore, it is typically the democrats that want the jobs here (unions, etc., have roles in maintaining better conditions for citizens). On the other hand, an industry friendly govt will pay more attention to industry needs (which these days are geared towards "next quarter results").
S
I noticed on my machine just now... the speed of the cursor is adaptive, so if I hold the arrow key for a little while, it moves much faster.
So, it is not actually a pain.
S
Do you mean to suggest that Reality TV, Hum-vees, DRM, 150 year plus copyrights, mini-nukes, "intellectual property rights", and "Fair and Balanced News" aren't the right philosophical and moral ways to utilize technology? S
I would first try to put the things in perspective. NLP is a relatively esoteric field, and most common "techies" wouldn't be so keen on delving into the internals.
You should take a look at posts on Mozilla, KDE, and GNOME, and you will see that people do get behind OSS for reasons other than elitism.
S
Keeping costs higher so that the industry stays in business is nothing short of charity. It's worse, infact, because the common people will be bearing the burden while the execs of these telco's will be golfing.
This is a very odd society indeed, where a single mother that has to go to two jobs to make ends meet, but corporations can be given a really cool deal.
S
Something is suspicious about the announcement of a DDOS on a bad day for SCO stock (note that SCOX stock fell quite a bit today). Most likely, it is to divert attention from the real problems (investors speaking up, etc.)
/. lemmings went on a limb claiming "oh, c'mon guys, don't let *us all* get into distepute."
Some of the wall street lemmings will fall for this, just like many
S
There is a high likelihood that one species is at a much more advanced stage than the other. Most likely, we'd be the more advanced ones (primarily due to the age of Sun and earth).
It would be like the pilgrims landing in the US. Complete colonization one way or other. Not much scope for an arms race...
S
Just to give a perspective, I once went through a linux kernel mailing list archive on google. It was about "using goto." It would be hard to believe, but most of the people, many experts, including Linus himself, patiently answered the questions of a newbie.
In fact, it was the newbie who was pretty rude -- often saying things like, "so and so book says goto's should never be used, so we shouldn't have them in the kernel. Why don't you guys fix it?"
People gave very detailed examples and their explanations makes for very interesting reading.
Now, in a commercial setting, one would often find some manager smiling and saying, "yes, you are right" and change the topic, or sometimes, almost rudely ask for a change in topic. For a casual person, it might seem that the manager is really polished and sophisticated, though it is far from the truth.
S
I wonder sometimes that whole of America is undergoing "walmart-ization". Here is my theory about dell call centers (complete theory pulling out of thin air):
:)
(1) Dell pays prevaliling wages to call center people
(2) Dell wants to cut costs, so moves to India
(3) Dell employees get shafted big time
(4) Dell ex-employees (or new kids) realize no new jobs are there
(5) They are ready to accept much lower wages
(6) Viola, Dell moves back the call center
Welcome to the walmart-ization
S
Except a long list of associated technologies. For a non X-pert, the article is just a summary of what is there out there. I was expecting some sort of "this is what the future plans are."
Roadmap is a little bit misleading term.
S
Mine is the other way round... Phone line is via vonage. If the net connection goes, I would be in a bit of a trouble.
S
This could be a fairly good thing. Now, there is enough outrage from the BSD camp too, and ofcourse Apple will also jump into the fray soon.
Kinda like the ents in the lord of the rings against Saruman.
S
There are things like support, that will make it more than just a "CD". If you think about it, $50 per seat is chump change for the govt.
S
I think you are trolling, but...
This is what I do when I install a linux distro:
(a) install *everything* -- disk space is not a big issue, and most services are typically not on by default
(b) whenever I need something new that I didn't do with linux (e.g. linux exploring Windows neighbourhood -- like Windows' "network places"), I do a quick search on google groups, get some answer in a minute, look at the menus, and it's almost always there
(c) most of the important software is avaliable pre-packaged from many places (simple search on google for the relevant package very often results in a quick solution)
I have been using Mandrake 9.2 Beta with NTFS read/write support. I have been fooling around with the NTFS partition a little bit (not heavy i/o though), but it has been holding up very well.
I specifically mentioned mandrake here because the other distro I used, Redhat, didn't have ntfs support on by default (not even read support -- they cite potentital legal issues). Mandrake has NTFS read/write on by default.
S
I was expecting the summary to read "Gamespy finally acknowledged this guy's feedback and sent a CD for review" -- sort of like hiring a security consultant or something like that.
May be I am over estimating the common sense of companies and people.
S
I filed a bug in our product, and after about a couple of months, another person filed the same bug. The concerned developer marked my bug as a duplicate of the later bug. I didn't care -- until the numbers of "mean time between bug reporting and fixing" came up as a presentation during our product release.
S
I think the main advantage is that teachers all over the world have the option of incorporating parts of the MIT notes and curriculum into their classes.
So, if a low end school has a fresh teacher (typically someone who just finished undergrad), he or she can focus on understanding the content and teach it -- avoiding the added burden of creating new course material (which would likely be of inferior quality).
S
My observation with the linux progress is that the unsupported hardware is typically the latest and greatest hardware.
I have had this experience on a Dell Optiplex with a Serial ATA drive (Redhat 10 beta 1 didn't have the driver support -- "accidentally" left out). The latest redhat kernel builds had it, and I thought, let me wait for a month and get the next release, and lo behold, I have the beta 2 from redhat. Meanwhile, other distros have had the support, so I could have picked any other distro and started off.
Even when the hardware is unsupported, there is often a choice, and the choices aren't bad either.
S
It's better to spend taxpayer money and make one company rich (which helps the stock market) than save taxpayer money and make nobody rich. Duh.
How is this logic different from that of a pyramid scheme?
S
I agree that $200 - $400 is quite a bit for a lower middle class person, let alone a poor indian. However, the poor do "need" a computer. If not today, tomorrow. At least shared computers, like those in public libraries in US.
The access to latest information (and educational resources) can potentially open the gateway out of the slums.
S
Could be a little OT...
Generating a lot of repetitive code can be done by the computer, but can't that be taken care of at a layer that the end user need not worry about -- by defining the higher level concepts at the language level?
Here is an example: In Perl, there is a module called Class::ObjectTemplate. It is a template that can be used to define classes. A code can work as follows:
package MyClass;
use Class:ObjectTemplate;
require exporter;
@ISA = ("Class::ObjectTemplate");
attributes("a", "b", "c", "d");
That's it. Now, MyClass has accessor methods, a constructor, and so on...
my $m = MyClass->new();
$m->a("Hello");
my $x = $m->a();
and so on.
The difference between this and the Code Generation utilities is that there is no intermediate code for the programmar to tweak. Everything is right there.
S
There are many folks that do not even have basic language skills or basic math/science skills. All the relevant information is already out there on the net. Just like, all the roads are there, but there are not many runners.
"Certifications" can never substitute for a good education -- at least at a large scale. A really motivated good student will end up in a good program somewhere.
S
Same thing with the housing prices and health care costs in the United States. Aritificially inflated -- there is so much land, and the cost of materials is very low too, yet the "city council" gets to decide what and where houses can be built.
Oh, and same shit with "widely used" software too -- the OS and Office tools and a compiler suite cost more than the rest of the system these days.
S