Propaganda for ISIS? Pretty much everybody I know has thought the exact opposite. That this sort of thing is a disaster for them, and is going to hasten their demise.
"ISIS: Hey Western Governments that are largely keeping their hands off of the situation: We're going to kill your citizens now."
"Obama: Get me Seal Team 6"
Of course they want to hire the "very best", where "bestness" is measured by how little money they are willing to work for.
I don't disagree that there are some really smart people around the world who want to work for Google, but really valuable people don't need special programs to come over to work. The existing system is already set up to admit them. This is a smoke screen to hide the true purpose of the program: finding more people who don't know the value of their skills, preferably ones without many existing relationships that are easier to overwork.
I guess it's a good thing after all that Congress killed the Superconducting Supercollider after all then. I mean their main argument was that it wasn't going to have a good ROI because knowledge has no value.
This variation is otherwise known as the "forever game" of Monopoly. Without the money sink of the fines, the game is virtually guaranteed to drag on for hours and hours, thoroughly and completely boring everybody.
Netflix is better for me on v6 than it is on v4 because my ISP (Fios) does not support v6 so I have to tunnel it out, and the tunnel avoids the congested uplink that Verizon has to Netflix.
I have a Iconia Tab with a Tegra 2, and am pretty pissed at how fast nVidia dropped driver support for the chip. I'm stuck on an ancient version of Android because of it.
You had mainframe access in school?!? I don't count embedded "OS"es like Cisco's iOS--you are just running an application for configuring the device. It's semantics and I can see the arguments for and against it. When you learn those, you're not really learning the OS so much as just learning the device, it's not especially portable knowledge.
Man I wish. iMessage is the only form of pure IP communication that works reliably with the people I know, but only if they have Apple devices. Skype requires so much effort to set up that its pretty much for special occasions only.
It's hard to find that many OSes these days. Once you get beyond Windows/Linux (Unix)/MacOS you start talking about a lot of stuff that's basically "Linux but...". I guess if you were particularly generous you could count BSD as a fourth OS, but that's stretching it. It really depends about what you mean when you say you've "learned" an OS. Have you learned how to manage it? How it handles devices and memory under the hood? The interface between the OS and the applications it runs? Or is it just "I know how to log in and do the 'ls' and 'cd' equivalents."?
In my classes we tended to learn 1 of each "type" of programming language. So some MIPS assembler (low level), a bunch of C (imperative), some C++ (Object Oriented), some Scheme (Functional), some Prolog (Logical), some SQL (Logical, but data driven). The idea was that the individual details of each language are less important than learning the thought processes behind them.
That's something I would have gone to the Dean of the IS school and talk about, because it's a totally stupid policy and learning SQL is an enormously valuable life skill for any programmer. Either that or go to the Dean of the CS department and convince him that they should have their own "Databases for CS students" class instead. This may he harder as some CS department top brass are displaced mathematicians and have no interest in supporting courses that are "boring tradecraft stuff" and would rather get another theoretical math via computers type course instead.
There are two "optional" CS type courses that every student should take IMHO: Databases and Networks. That's what the world is going to be made of in the future, and we're already making a lot of progress in that area.
Not with the protocol itself (because you couldn't trust it anyway), but you could implement crypto on top of the bus to avoid that problem. Everybody signs the messages and only accepts messages from approved sources who have signed their messages correctly.
You don't have to pre-place keys everywhere in the car. You just need all of the asymmetric key exchange to happen when you turn the key. If it takes 50 ms then so be it. Hopefully nobody gets in a high speed collision 45ms after starting their car. After that each component will have negotiated a symmetric key that they can use for the rest of the communication. You can decode a 256bit AES key in a couple of microseconds on even cheap microcontrollers these days.
I have to imagine that things have changed at least a little bit in 17 years.
I appreciate the theft deterrence aspect of this, but I wonder what it does to the third party parts market. For the key and immobilizer that's fine, but when every single part on the car needs a specific code that is baked into the ECU then repairs start to get tricky.
I had a Palm IIIe and the NiMH batteries I used in it lasted roughly a week or two depending on how heavily I used the backlight. But these were the old school NiMH that would be dead after a couple of weeks even when they weren't plugged into anything. Alkaline batteries lasted a crazy long time, like a month or more. I was a pretty heavy user of the device as well, using it to read e-books on the bus every day, playing games, and taking notes.
This reminds me of a story I read a few years ago about a landmine clearing robot that was designed to have its legs blown off and still travel through the minefield.
But the whole point of Netflix is to get good selection. Redbox has the Blockbuster problem: Halfway decent recent release selection, but absolutely abysmal older and obscure movie selection.
I have a 2 disk at a time plan with Netflix. I have my own queue and my wife has one. I run through about a disk a week, sometimes two. My wife has had the same disk for a couple of months now. It really depends what movie you have. If I get some light comedy I'll pop it in whenever and return it in a day or two. If I get some Kurosawa film I need to hunker down and pay attention so it can sit for several days before I watch it. It's a lot more commitment.
There is no way I'm going to drop the DVD plan unless it goes totally to crap. Selection wise there is just no comparison. For me the streaming is a sideshow until there is some sort of compulsory licensing system for video like we have for music. The current law gives too much power to rightsholders to ever have a good streaming service. It's a fundamental problem with the way the laws are set up.
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Propaganda for ISIS? Pretty much everybody I know has thought the exact opposite. That this sort of thing is a disaster for them, and is going to hasten their demise.
"ISIS: Hey Western Governments that are largely keeping their hands off of the situation: We're going to kill your citizens now."
"Obama: Get me Seal Team 6"
Of course they want to hire the "very best", where "bestness" is measured by how little money they are willing to work for.
I don't disagree that there are some really smart people around the world who want to work for Google, but really valuable people don't need special programs to come over to work. The existing system is already set up to admit them. This is a smoke screen to hide the true purpose of the program: finding more people who don't know the value of their skills, preferably ones without many existing relationships that are easier to overwork.
I guess it's a good thing after all that Congress killed the Superconducting Supercollider after all then. I mean their main argument was that it wasn't going to have a good ROI because knowledge has no value.
It is actually required by law to be there. All phones must be capable of making an emergency call without being unlocked.
This variation is otherwise known as the "forever game" of Monopoly. Without the money sink of the fines, the game is virtually guaranteed to drag on for hours and hours, thoroughly and completely boring everybody.
Netflix is better for me on v6 than it is on v4 because my ISP (Fios) does not support v6 so I have to tunnel it out, and the tunnel avoids the congested uplink that Verizon has to Netflix.
In some ways getting a job is like dating. If you are beautiful you can skip a lot of the bullshit.
Basically, Step 0: Be an expert at an in-demand technology. Step 1: Don't not be an expert at an in-demand technology.
I have a Iconia Tab with a Tegra 2, and am pretty pissed at how fast nVidia dropped driver support for the chip. I'm stuck on an ancient version of Android because of it.
Matte screens and touchscreens are not a great combo. They're too hard to clean fingerprints off of.
You had mainframe access in school?!? I don't count embedded "OS"es like Cisco's iOS--you are just running an application for configuring the device. It's semantics and I can see the arguments for and against it. When you learn those, you're not really learning the OS so much as just learning the device, it's not especially portable knowledge.
I guess it varies. Unless someone's cell phone is out of service they always get my messages. It's more reliable than SMS for me.
Man I wish. iMessage is the only form of pure IP communication that works reliably with the people I know, but only if they have Apple devices. Skype requires so much effort to set up that its pretty much for special occasions only.
It's hard to find that many OSes these days. Once you get beyond Windows/Linux (Unix)/MacOS you start talking about a lot of stuff that's basically "Linux but...". I guess if you were particularly generous you could count BSD as a fourth OS, but that's stretching it. It really depends about what you mean when you say you've "learned" an OS. Have you learned how to manage it? How it handles devices and memory under the hood? The interface between the OS and the applications it runs? Or is it just "I know how to log in and do the 'ls' and 'cd' equivalents."?
In my classes we tended to learn 1 of each "type" of programming language. So some MIPS assembler (low level), a bunch of C (imperative), some C++ (Object Oriented), some Scheme (Functional), some Prolog (Logical), some SQL (Logical, but data driven). The idea was that the individual details of each language are less important than learning the thought processes behind them.
That's something I would have gone to the Dean of the IS school and talk about, because it's a totally stupid policy and learning SQL is an enormously valuable life skill for any programmer. Either that or go to the Dean of the CS department and convince him that they should have their own "Databases for CS students" class instead. This may he harder as some CS department top brass are displaced mathematicians and have no interest in supporting courses that are "boring tradecraft stuff" and would rather get another theoretical math via computers type course instead.
There are two "optional" CS type courses that every student should take IMHO: Databases and Networks. That's what the world is going to be made of in the future, and we're already making a lot of progress in that area.
Not with the protocol itself (because you couldn't trust it anyway), but you could implement crypto on top of the bus to avoid that problem. Everybody signs the messages and only accepts messages from approved sources who have signed their messages correctly.
You don't have to pre-place keys everywhere in the car. You just need all of the asymmetric key exchange to happen when you turn the key. If it takes 50 ms then so be it. Hopefully nobody gets in a high speed collision 45ms after starting their car. After that each component will have negotiated a symmetric key that they can use for the rest of the communication. You can decode a 256bit AES key in a couple of microseconds on even cheap microcontrollers these days.
I have to imagine that things have changed at least a little bit in 17 years.
I appreciate the theft deterrence aspect of this, but I wonder what it does to the third party parts market. For the key and immobilizer that's fine, but when every single part on the car needs a specific code that is baked into the ECU then repairs start to get tricky.
Somehow I doubt that Ford and GM have a way to copy music out of the system. That's just not what those things are designed to do.
Oh, my balls!
I had a Palm IIIe and the NiMH batteries I used in it lasted roughly a week or two depending on how heavily I used the backlight. But these were the old school NiMH that would be dead after a couple of weeks even when they weren't plugged into anything. Alkaline batteries lasted a crazy long time, like a month or more. I was a pretty heavy user of the device as well, using it to read e-books on the bus every day, playing games, and taking notes.
This reminds me of a story I read a few years ago about a landmine clearing robot that was designed to have its legs blown off and still travel through the minefield.
Who says aliens use base 10 math? Base 8 or Base 12 would make a lot of sense, and then their round numbers would be something totally different.
But the whole point of Netflix is to get good selection. Redbox has the Blockbuster problem: Halfway decent recent release selection, but absolutely abysmal older and obscure movie selection.
I have a 2 disk at a time plan with Netflix. I have my own queue and my wife has one. I run through about a disk a week, sometimes two. My wife has had the same disk for a couple of months now. It really depends what movie you have. If I get some light comedy I'll pop it in whenever and return it in a day or two. If I get some Kurosawa film I need to hunker down and pay attention so it can sit for several days before I watch it. It's a lot more commitment.
There is no way I'm going to drop the DVD plan unless it goes totally to crap. Selection wise there is just no comparison. For me the streaming is a sideshow until there is some sort of compulsory licensing system for video like we have for music. The current law gives too much power to rightsholders to ever have a good streaming service. It's a fundamental problem with the way the laws are set up.