... from CERN or the Japanese mega-thingie? Don't get me wrong, I have a physics degree and understand very well what CERN is doing. (Ironically, the best thing to come out of CERN was the world wide web.:-D)
But I also have a broad view world of the world, and can see, that better communication (helped by technology) can solve much more pressing things than finding that last quark.
Ok maybe "giving it to OSS developers" is over-simplified, but please, I don't have to argue on/. that some useful stuff came out of OSS, right??
"Big Time" projects look to me mostly like they are built to show off. The particle thingy has to be there not because there's some valuable insight to be gained, but because the US can't let Europe possibly have a bigger one.
Same with supercomputers. Supercomputers are so 80s/90s. Decentralization is the thing of today, but, say, creating a grid network of 10,000 computers is not so easy to compare to some Japanese mega-thingie.
I sometimes wonder, if you took just 0.1% of that money and gave it to a random bunch of OSS developers, how much progress would come out of that.
... but you're consulting some top dogs in serious business matters without them asking for any credentials? Not even a reference from your last client or what? Sounds like a bum in a suit could walk into Bank of America and advise them to switch their core banking infrastructure to Perl skripts. Tell me what I'm not understanding here.
Wrong. At least the people I met where so desparate to tell everybody how cool they were once they got back to real life. Burning Man seems to be more about having been there than about being there.
Praise Goddard for the rocket? AFAIK Goddard was a garage experimentor and his stuff had no influence whatsoever on later rocket development. It was all imported from Germany after 2nd WW where it was part of You-Know-Who's weapons program.
The list seems to be typically biased towards US inventions like so many.
I think at least as much credit goes to Marconi and Reis for co-inventing the telephone.
Get a tour of a particle accelerator. I saw the big ring and detector at DESY in Hamburg. Oh boy, oh golly. CERN must be even crazier. Especially the detectors and mean big machines. The Tokamak fusion reactor must be similar, too, but I haven't seen this one, I don't know if you can get tours.
It was just mentioned in a recent/. post, but I have to reiterate that the Transrapid/MagLev train is really worth experiencing. Apart from all the controversy about cost, environment etc., it just FEELS great to ride. It is absolutely smooth and at low speeds (such as when coming into a station) absolutely noiseless. You don't know how odd it feels to see such a huge mass moving noiseless. It FEELS very futuristic. You have to experience it first-hand. I took a ride on the test track in Germany ~10 years ago, but I think they are now encouraging visitors more than ever to come. Check www.transrapid.de. In any case, according to the recent/. post, you can just ride the one in Shanghai pretty soon, too, and while you're there take a look at some of Shanghai's futuristic buildings etc.
It's not that the software developers could do it, we just need to force them to. It's impossible to enforce ethics and discipline on so many people. The combined software on your PC today involved many, many more people creating it that e.g. designing your car, including all the parts suppliers. Software is by far the most complex engineering product there is.
Hold it, I know these characters from one of those movie clips that get passed around by email and that are supposedly made by some bored artists at a CG studio during lunchtime. Rumour also has it that South Park started this way. (You can see the "original" at ifilm.com.) Should it be that this is a second example of a joke becoming actual mainstream entertainment?
What's the deal with this Mensa membership? Are you talking about that "IQ" society? I passed their stupid test once but no one there was intelligent enough to explain to me why I should join now.
These are the deepest secrets of software development that you are asking for there. They can only be learned on the job through years of experience and implemented by someone who has risen to software architect.
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But I also have a broad view world of the world, and can see, that better communication (helped by technology) can solve much more pressing things than finding that last quark.
Ok maybe "giving it to OSS developers" is over-simplified, but please, I don't have to argue on /. that some useful stuff came out of OSS, right??
Same with supercomputers. Supercomputers are so 80s/90s. Decentralization is the thing of today, but, say, creating a grid network of 10,000 computers is not so easy to compare to some Japanese mega-thingie.
I sometimes wonder, if you took just 0.1% of that money and gave it to a random bunch of OSS developers, how much progress would come out of that.
... but you're consulting some top dogs in serious business matters without them asking for any credentials? Not even a reference from your last client or what? Sounds like a bum in a suit could walk into Bank of America and advise them to switch their core banking infrastructure to Perl skripts. Tell me what I'm not understanding here.
Easy. Check here.
Wrong. At least the people I met where so desparate to tell everybody how cool they were once they got back to real life. Burning Man seems to be more about having been there than about being there.
The list seems to be typically biased towards US inventions like so many.
I think at least as much credit goes to Marconi and Reis for co-inventing the telephone.
Get a tour of a particle accelerator. I saw the big ring and detector at DESY in Hamburg. Oh boy, oh golly. CERN must be even crazier. Especially the detectors and mean big machines. The Tokamak fusion reactor must be similar, too, but I haven't seen this one, I don't know if you can get tours.
It was just mentioned in a recent /. post, but I have to reiterate that the Transrapid/MagLev train is really worth experiencing. Apart from all the controversy about cost, environment etc., it just FEELS great to ride. It is absolutely smooth and at low speeds (such as when coming into a station) absolutely noiseless. You don't know how odd it feels to see such a huge mass moving noiseless. It FEELS very futuristic. You have to experience it first-hand. I took a ride on the test track in Germany ~10 years ago, but I think they are now encouraging visitors more than ever to come. Check www.transrapid.de. In any case, according to the recent /. post, you can just ride the one in Shanghai pretty soon, too, and while you're there take a look at some of Shanghai's futuristic buildings etc.
It's not that the software developers could do it, we just need to force them to. It's impossible to enforce ethics and discipline on so many people. The combined software on your PC today involved many, many more people creating it that e.g. designing your car, including all the parts suppliers. Software is by far the most complex engineering product there is.
Hold it, I know these characters from one of those movie clips that get passed around by email and that are supposedly made by some bored artists at a CG studio during lunchtime. Rumour also has it that South Park started this way. (You can see the "original" at ifilm.com.) Should it be that this is a second example of a joke becoming actual mainstream entertainment?
dunno what to say
In other news Noah and his pets survived the Great Flood in an Ark.
What's the deal with this Mensa membership? Are you talking about that "IQ" society? I passed their stupid test once but no one there was intelligent enough to explain to me why I should join now.
These can and will never be tought in university.
... you might think their only business was fighting about trademarks with Microsoft.