This might have been true in the past but it isn't true of the current CS department. Since UF was designated a "Research 1" university, the CISE department has made huge strides to increase its research competitiveness. They have won 12 NSF CAREER awards for young faculty, received 11 best paper awards at major conferences in the last 5 years, and have quintupled their external research grant funding.
I didn't get the impression of a sweat shop. The programmers at Google I interviewed with and my friends that work there all seem to love what they are doing and they work on really cool technology. On the other hand, I got the feeling that it is hard to advance or make an impression on the higher-ups without putting it lots of extra hours.
It is true. I took a job with an automated trading firm over Google. Partly I wanted to work for a smaller company. Google's dream 20% time looked like a myth when I actually interviewed there (none of my interviewers used their time because they had too much work to do on their normal projects). Also, there's something satisfying about directly measuring the success of your software in dollars. If it makes money, you run it.
I used to like John McCain, but this web site makes me think he's the Dark Lord of the Sith. Just watch the "Stand Up" video. Is that the theme from "Crimson Tide" in the background? Somebody tell him the American public wants less imperialism, not more.
You are complaining that a Bollywood movie is too long? That's the whole point! You can spend your entire evening having a great time with all your friends at the movie theater. Hindi movies are produced for an entirely different audience and context than American films.
Did the OP even read the article he submitted? It says that if a company violates the GPL, that this might also be a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley if they claim that they still have a right to use Linux despite the GPL violation. There is nothing about listing the IP holders.
On an aside, I didn't think there was any violation to the GPL that could stop you from being able to use Linux. A GPL violation would make you lose your right to distribute it, right?
Since Lucas is fine with fan-made Star Wars films, as long as they don't make a profit, perhaps Lucas will see it in his heart to release the franchise to the public in his will under some friendly Creative Commons license. I'd love to see what independent film makers could do with the material using the technology of 2050.
ST: Canada So what is left? Where in the ST Universe is there enough uncertainty to make interesting plots?
I'd like to see ST: Warbird. It would be set on a Romulan ship during the Kirk era and told from their point of view. The Federation would be meddling pricks standing in the way of the mission of spreading civilization to the barbarian hordes.
As someone who does research in this area, I think this announcement is a little premature. There are several fundamental problems that have yet to be solved with this sort of wireless network topology, and I don't see any indication that the 802.11s task force has solved them.
For example, no one has given a MAC protocol that solves the hidden/exposed sender/receiver problems simultaneously. Without such a MAC protocol, it is impossible to resolve the contention fairly. 802.11 DCF solves hidden and exposed sender, but not receiver.
Also, Gupta and Kumar showed that the per-node bandwidth in a wireless mesh with random node placement is O(1/sqrt(n)). This is especially bad news for the sort of nationwide wireless meshes people have been talking about here.
Finally, TCP is especially problematic over multiple wireless hops. It causes self-interference which creates massive packet loss due to contention. TCP is built on the assumption that all packet loss is from congestion, but this assumption is not met by wireless contention losses.
In my own simulations, TCP's overaggression causes routing packet losses, creating spurious route breakage and even more TCP timeouts.
Theoretically, no. Gupta and Kumar showed that the per-node bandwidth in such a network decreases with O(1/sqrt(n)) where n is the number of nodes. Thus, the more nodes you have, the less bandwidth each will get. As n approaches infinity, this number becomes 0.
Back when I was still in school, a MS recruiter came and gave a talk to our ACM. His name was also Bill Gates. His email address was bgates@microsoft.com, which caused all sorts of confusion. Apparently, he would get invitations to dinners and speaking engagements.
What if they DON'T share any of our religions? Then ALL of ours must be wrong.
Why? I don't follow this reasoning. After all, no one in the Americas shared any religions with people from Europe, but that doesn't imply that no European or Native American religion is true. Lack of agreement between alien cultures does not imply falsehood.
Actually, I meant control inflation. By expanding the money supply, the Fed can cause inflation. By constricting it, they can curb inflation. Sometimes either policy is necessary. The point is that with gold-backed currency, the total money supply depends on how much gold there is. If someone finds a huge new load of gold, we get instant inflation. For example, Spain had a gold-based currency during the colonial days, and the huge influx of gold from the colonies completely destabilized its economy, causing extreme inflation. With modern economic tools like fiat money, we can limit these problems.
How in Greenspan's name did this get modded to +5, Interesting when it contains almost 0 factual information. The Federal Reserve is not a private corporation. It is a Division of the Treasury Dept.. From the site:
As the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve derives its authority from the U.S. Congress. It is considered an independent central bank because its decisions do not have to be ratified by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branch of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by the Congress, and the terms of the members of the Board of Governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms. However, the Federal Reserve is subject to oversight by the Congress, which periodically reviews its activities and can alter its responsibilities by statute. Also, the Federal Reserve must work within the framework of the overall objectives of economic and financial policy established by the government. Therefore, the Federal Reserve can be more accurately described as "independent within the government."
The Federal Reserve is funded by interest collected on U.S. Govt. securities and services to banks, such as check clearing.
You are correct that our currency is not backed by precious metals, and is only worth whatever someone will give you for it. However, gold is only worth what someone will give you for it as well, but fiat currency has the advantage that the government can control the total supply of money, and thus limit inflation.
Will someone please mod the parent post back down? Maybe, "-1, Skipped Economics Class?"
I used to get 2-3 a week, but since the list went into effect, I've only gotten one call. When I told the caller I was on the list, they apologized profusely and claimed they were still working bugs out of their system. I didn't think it was worth filing a complaint.
FLs Constitution forbids an income tax, and thus the state has to get revenue somehow. Most of it comes in the form of sales taxes, but this unfairly taxes consumers over business, so there are also a host of other business-oriented use taxes, such as fixture tax (a tax on things used to display merchandise), telephone tax, and now a LAN tax. Businesses in FL are used to this sort of thing, and still would probably prefer the no-income tax benefit of FL over relocating to a different state.
Right. I assumed he was being sarcastic, and was trying to say that the move to floating currency was a horrible mistake (a view shared by the site he linked). I was trying to point out the opposite.
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This might have been true in the past but it isn't true of the current CS department. Since UF was designated a "Research 1" university, the CISE department has made huge strides to increase its research competitiveness. They have won 12 NSF CAREER awards for young faculty, received 11 best paper awards at major conferences in the last 5 years, and have quintupled their external research grant funding.
Just put the pictures on the web somewhere and put a URL in the box. I'm sure we'll still have the Internet in 25 years.
The World Fantasy Awards tend to pick good ones too. http://www.worldfantasy.org/
Just send them this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1n4fDgmrF3o
I didn't get the impression of a sweat shop. The programmers at Google I interviewed with and my friends that work there all seem to love what they are doing and they work on really cool technology. On the other hand, I got the feeling that it is hard to advance or make an impression on the higher-ups without putting it lots of extra hours.
Send me your resume and I'll hand it to our recruiters. Are you interested in moving to Chicago?
It is true. I took a job with an automated trading firm over Google. Partly I wanted to work for a smaller company. Google's dream 20% time looked like a myth when I actually interviewed there (none of my interviewers used their time because they had too much work to do on their normal projects). Also, there's something satisfying about directly measuring the success of your software in dollars. If it makes money, you run it.
I used to like John McCain, but this web site makes me think he's the Dark Lord of the Sith. Just watch the "Stand Up" video. Is that the theme from "Crimson Tide" in the background? Somebody tell him the American public wants less imperialism, not more.
You are complaining that a Bollywood movie is too long? That's the whole point! You can spend your entire evening having a great time with all your friends at the movie theater. Hindi movies are produced for an entirely different audience and context than American films.
Did the OP even read the article he submitted? It says that if a company violates the GPL, that this might also be a violation of Sarbanes-Oxley if they claim that they still have a right to use Linux despite the GPL violation. There is nothing about listing the IP holders. On an aside, I didn't think there was any violation to the GPL that could stop you from being able to use Linux. A GPL violation would make you lose your right to distribute it, right?
Observe the genius of PEPSIMAN! http://www.ex.org/4.5/55-game_pepsiman.html
Since Lucas is fine with fan-made Star Wars films, as long as they don't make a profit, perhaps Lucas will see it in his heart to release the franchise to the public in his will under some friendly Creative Commons license. I'd love to see what independent film makers could do with the material using the technology of 2050.
I'd like to see ST: Warbird. It would be set on a Romulan ship during the Kirk era and told from their point of view. The Federation would be meddling pricks standing in the way of the mission of spreading civilization to the barbarian hordes.
For Latin, I find that words for Linux helps.
For example, no one has given a MAC protocol that solves the hidden/exposed sender/receiver problems simultaneously. Without such a MAC protocol, it is impossible to resolve the contention fairly. 802.11 DCF solves hidden and exposed sender, but not receiver.
Also, Gupta and Kumar showed that the per-node bandwidth in a wireless mesh with random node placement is O(1/sqrt(n)). This is especially bad news for the sort of nationwide wireless meshes people have been talking about here.
Finally, TCP is especially problematic over multiple wireless hops. It causes self-interference which creates massive packet loss due to contention. TCP is built on the assumption that all packet loss is from congestion, but this assumption is not met by wireless contention losses.
In my own simulations, TCP's overaggression causes routing packet losses, creating spurious route breakage and even more TCP timeouts.
Theoretically, no. Gupta and Kumar showed that the per-node bandwidth in such a network decreases with O(1/sqrt(n)) where n is the number of nodes. Thus, the more nodes you have, the less bandwidth each will get. As n approaches infinity, this number becomes 0.
Back when I was still in school, a MS recruiter came and gave a talk to our ACM. His name was also Bill Gates. His email address was bgates@microsoft.com, which caused all sorts of confusion. Apparently, he would get invitations to dinners and speaking engagements.
Intuit has a web-based version of Turbotax available. I have used it to do my taxes for the past 2 years using Linux and a web browser.
Why? I don't follow this reasoning. After all, no one in the Americas shared any religions with people from Europe, but that doesn't imply that no European or Native American religion is true. Lack of agreement between alien cultures does not imply falsehood.
Unfortunately, the campus is owned by Coke, so we have to hit up one of the street vendors for the nectar.
Actually, I meant control inflation. By expanding the money supply, the Fed can cause inflation. By constricting it, they can curb inflation. Sometimes either policy is necessary. The point is that with gold-backed currency, the total money supply depends on how much gold there is. If someone finds a huge new load of gold, we get instant inflation. For example, Spain had a gold-based currency during the colonial days, and the huge influx of gold from the colonies completely destabilized its economy, causing extreme inflation. With modern economic tools like fiat money, we can limit these problems.
You are correct that our currency is not backed by precious metals, and is only worth whatever someone will give you for it. However, gold is only worth what someone will give you for it as well, but fiat currency has the advantage that the government can control the total supply of money, and thus limit inflation.
Will someone please mod the parent post back down? Maybe, "-1, Skipped Economics Class?"
I used to get 2-3 a week, but since the list went into effect, I've only gotten one call. When I told the caller I was on the list, they apologized profusely and claimed they were still working bugs out of their system. I didn't think it was worth filing a complaint.
FLs Constitution forbids an income tax, and thus the state has to get revenue somehow. Most of it comes in the form of sales taxes, but this unfairly taxes consumers over business, so there are also a host of other business-oriented use taxes, such as fixture tax (a tax on things used to display merchandise), telephone tax, and now a LAN tax. Businesses in FL are used to this sort of thing, and still would probably prefer the no-income tax benefit of FL over relocating to a different state.
Right. I assumed he was being sarcastic, and was trying to say that the move to floating currency was a horrible mistake (a view shared by the site he linked). I was trying to point out the opposite.