If you think existentialism is full of bs and believe people have "an essence", recording everything in your life on DVD simply doesn't cut it. It might be a really good simulation, but without the "essence" it's not really you. Unless of course you're talking about Emeril's essence, which is much cheaper than recording your life on DVD and is generally available at your local supermarket.
On the otherhand, if you are an existentialist and believe people are the sumb of their experience, then recording every waking moment would be equivalent to capturing you. But then again, I doubt the engineers are thinking of these philosphical issues.
Back in 95-96, these types of calculations for large complex proteins were typically sent to UCSD. In fact, most of the grad students working with these types of calculations all sent their jobs to UCSD supercomputing facility (if they were lucky). Some of the ones that I've seen took 1 week to finish. Not that I understood what I was looking at, but gridMathmatica should make it easier for grad students to use resources on their campus. Getting time or slots at UCSD's supercomputing facility took some serious butt kissing and wrangling. Atleast that's what I saw first hand. It may have changed since the 90's.
already have their own cluster, and grid systems? This should mean some small junior college or state college w/o tons of government research grants may be able to even the playing field. With the reduction of cost, it begins to make it easier for smaller research labs and schools to build grids. I remember assisting graduates studens prep processes so that it could be sent to UCSD's supercomputer. Now more universities will have their own system and be able to utilize their computer labs as grids at night. Atleast in theory.
hurray, hurray!!! Now US citizens should drive less, focus on family and less on accumulating gobs of money. This is great news indeed since the rest of the world doesn't care about the US, so that means no terrorist will want to bomb the US for exporting its aweful consumerist culture.
Isn't the greatest story of this the human element
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Behind Deep Blue
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The underlying fear that makes the whole story interesting isn't that deep blue beat kasparov. It's a concrete example of technology dehumanizing and demoralizing a Grand Master. It has all the baggage of "fear of technology". It's all those fears movies like Terminator, War Games and other less notable movies try to explore. Who cares about deep blue. Lets talk about how fear of technology and loosing control make people obsess over the games deep blue played against kasparov.
Too many people go to college for the wrong reason. It isn't to get career training, atleast not for me. It's the best place to learn and experience new things. I'm a programmer, but like many people I don't have a CS degree. In fact I've never taken a college programming course. 95% of what I know is self taught. College for me was about taking classes that would challenge me as a person and force me to expand my thinking. You have 30+ years of work ahead of you, but only a few years to dedicate to learning.
The skills I acquired from literature classes help apply in more ways than I would have guessed. Take office politics for example. Literature classes teach you to extrapolate a characters motivations for their actions. Those skills help you navigate tough situations where politics are in play. Half your job as a programmer is navigating office politics, so those skills are critical to long term success as a programmer. Other skills in literature like learning how to deconstruct a piece of literature, to expose the underlying assumptions and framework. All these skills are applicable to every job because things are never what they seem. If you know your career will be programming, then major in something else. You will atleast graduate with a wider range of experience than if you stuck with CS.
I realize you need a couple weeks to regression test, and make sure the patch really is a patch and doesn't create new bugs. Which is why I try to make sure dev time vs debug/qa time is roughly 5/2 at minimum and 1 to 1 in situations where I have the luxury of time. I'm bugtraq is blame free, but I personally would rather know all the information so I can make an informed decision and not base my decisions on half-truths.
Then again, do you really think script kiddies really care what you and I think? No software is perfect and will contain bugs. This is why there's QA and interative development. The real solution here isn't to place blame which American culture loves. The real solution is to make sure software is design and built to a high standard. Everything after the fact is simply rationalizations and poor attempts to deflect responsibility.
If people think script kiddies didn't already have the code or grabbed the exploit off some IRC server, they are sadly mistaken. People who bitch about full disclosure would like to live in a nice little world where there's no hackers, but get real. I grew up around hackers. Some were brilliant and were coding in assembly at 10, others were lamers wannabe hackers. Even before the Internet these types of things we widely distributed within the model Bulletin boards. Anyone who was active in the Bulletin Board era knows the most active category was always virii.
Those who think, "We should give MS a couple months to find an appropriate patch" are sadly misguided. Do you think a script kiddie or hacker is going to wait? Do you think they're going to say "Oh, I shouldn't do this because microsoft is a big company." Wake up people, the only way a company is going to put their top programmers on the job to fix the bug is when the threat moves from "possible" to "real". As much as I wish companies too exploits more seriously, the reality is they don't until it is percieved as a "real immediate threat."
Tomcat docs are good, but always need improvement
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Professional Apache Tomcat
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Having used Tomcat quite a bit, some things aren't as easy as they should be. Doing a simple stand alone installation takes only a few minutes on a clean system, but frequently the system has weird configurations. There are certain things Tomcat documentation could use improvement, so the book is a nice addition. Often I find documentation is written for those with experience and isn't written in plain english for newbies. Looking at the number of posts on tomcat-user mailing list, more than half the questions are due to user error and documentation. More documentation is always a good thing. well most of the time.
The conversion has nothing to with technology. It has everything to do with cost. ATT has both kinds of hardware. When they say they're upgrading to GSM, they are upgrading to GPRS, which is the next version of TDMA. Both GSM and TDMA use the same encoding algorithm.
Voice quality has nothing to the underlying transport of the signal. It has to do with how the carrier configures MSC (mobile switching center) and their network. Nokia, Ericcson and most of the big players have expressed an interest in making WCDMA the future platform for many reasons. The main one is better signal quality and higher capacity. 3G has the potential of 2.5-3x the capacity of 3G GSM/TDMA. The problem is the economy sucks, so rather than set the threshold for dropped packets higher, they leave it low to improve capacity. Basically, the companies are betting you're happy to get a signal over a fuzzy signal.
modern society isn't all that smart
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About the only thing modern society can lay claim to is disregaurd for nature and progressing genocide. Just because other cultures didn't create gargantuan polution factors, spewing tons of poisons every hour doesn't make them less advanced or some how backwards. We have the british and christianity to thank for that assinine perspective. "Manifest destiney" is a great excuse to rape and pilliage everything in sight for the sake of "advancement". I'm not claiming innocence here, just pointing how incredibly stupid we have been the last 500 years. Our ancestors managed to keep the planet relatively clean for 2K years, until some idiot started the industrial revolution. The achievements of organized religions are tremendous and horrifying. One one hand we have all the homeless people they save each year. On the other end, we have the rapid degeneration and depletion of the planet's resources. Something drastic changes have to happen in the next 100 years to turn things around. At the current, mother nature is going to come up with some super bug to wipe human kind off the face of the earth.
Like there is one definitive measurement of intelligence. Anyone stupid enough to claim to be intelligent is too stupid to realize he knows almost nothing.
Re:this one I never forget..
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If I could mod, I'd give it another point. ROTFLMAO
we put backstreet boz, Nsync, britney, american idol and all the other lame retarded corporate pop idols in it and simply blow it up. Yeah, it's flame bait, but someone had to say it.
Back on topic. Making cheap and safe space travel would be a worthy goal. It would go a long way to making space more democratic and not just a playing field of super nations. Actually, scratch that. It's all BS. That 10 million would be better spent improving schools, health care and cleaning the environment.
no need to cry over spilled milk
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The Last Comdex?
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comdex will go away and something else will take it's place eventually. the more things change the more they stay the same people. Hasn't anyone read the i-ching or any of the great dead philosophers? Damn near sighted people who think things are new are just too stupid to realize it's all part of the same old cycle.
Sure you can find tons of paper MIS/MCSE guys, but to be completely frank. 80% of them suck and end up creating more problems than they solve. This isn't something I've heard. It's first hand experience dealing with a half dozen small, medium and large ISP, as well as staff sysadmins.
Give you an example of a real problem I know first hand. It's a bit dated, but it is still a valid example. ISP A a medium sized ISP in San Diego county with approximately 100K subscribers runs 80 linux boxes for the user homepages. ISP A is primarily a Solaris and linux shop. Their total sys admin staff for supporting 200 or so servers is a team of 5 guys. ISP B also in San diego has about 10K subscribers, but is primarily a windows shop. ISP B runs two dedicated exchange servers, but is unable to provide reliable service. In fact their email is down daily and they have a staff of 3 sysadmins. Not only that, their DNS server is also windows, it continually hiccups and results in "domain not found." In fact, every windows based ISP that I have ever worked with has a much larger staff to support the equal number of subscribers. In many cases, the staff was 2X the linux/solaris shops. Let's say an experienced junior sys admin goes for 55-65K and a equivalent microsoft junior admin goes for 35-45K. Keep in mind these are old numbers and aren't accurate for the current market. if it take 5 unix admins to support 100K subscribers and it takes 3 MS sysadmins to support 10K subscribers, it could take from 10-30 MIS sysadmin to support 100K subscribers.
Therefore the TCO for 1 yr of unix staff for 100K subscribers would be about 450K including benefits and other costs. The equivalent for a microsoft shop could be as low as 500K and as high as 1.5million per year. Again, these are based on several years of experience with small, medium and large ISP's. In the end, every single ISP that starts out as a windows shop puts most of their critical components on a unix box. Things like email, firewall, dns, nntp and accounting are all on unix. Even ISP's that provide IIS hosting aren't pure windows. All of the big IIS hosting companies I know have unix for the critical functions.
Read about the latest technologies. If something grabs your attention and gets you all excited, do that. I've tried to live my life by one simple rule. Do what you love for a living!
when that job is no longer what you love to do, change your job. It's just that simple. Things work out in the end and hopefully when you're old and grey you won't be saying "I wish I quit that job and done something interesting." But then again, a large percentage of Americans think of jobs as "puts bread on the table."
People should stop buying this line of BS about how publicly traded corporations are here to build value for it's share holders.
That might have been the original idea, but get real people. If one were to look at the behavior of the top 100 corporations, does that rule hold true? As corporations weild more political power, they are becoming the equivalent of the ruling class. The only difference now is the rich get to hide behind some corporate name and not subject themself to public scrutiney. The more things change, the more they stay the same people.
Some others have mentioned it, but I would recommend it for several reasons. Animation Master uses a different kind of spline than NURB's, which require all patches (surfaces) have 4 points. Hash splines on the other hand can be 3, 4 or 5 point. One of the biggest challenges to good modeling is efficiency of patches and ease of animation. Having modeled organic forms in polygons, NURBs and Hash splines, I prefer hash splines.
I'll take an example of a nose for starters. In polygon modeling, a person would create different size spheres, do boolean add/subtract to get a rough shape. Once it gets close enough, a modeler will start pushing vertices. To get a sufficiently smoothe looking nose, one might need several thousand vertices, which makes pushing individual points very challenging. Nurbs on the otherhand go through the same process, but since every curve is a spline, you need fewer control vertices and therefore makes it easier. After all, if you only have to push/pull 100 control points vs 500 you're going to get your job done faster. Hash splines are fundamentally different than NURB's or polygons, therefore you can reduce the control vertices down even further.
Having gone through all that, what does this mean towards a job? In many cases like movie production, modeling is done with tracing physical models which are carved by skilled artists. Those tools are expensive and typically are beyond the reach of a student and most people.
The thing to keep in mind is learning all the various techniques and don't tie yourself to one software package, because the skills should transfer from one software to another. Also, have a firm understanding of lathing, boolean, extrusion and surfacing techniques. Back to the example of a human face. Modeling the human face depends in a large part on the type of animation you're going to do. If you're doing tons of voice animation and detailed facial expressions, it's important to design the mesh so that it follows the muscle structure. For example, doing facial animation in polygons is very hard because it's difficult to line up all the polygons so it matches up to the wrinkles. Where as NURB's tend to promote a verticle/horizontal grid. Most wrinkles on a human face line up on a nice grid. Hash splines give you that flexibility, because sometimes do you want a 3 point surface. One popular mesh design in NURB modeling for human faces is to extrude out from the mouth. Some techniques are directly affected by the technology, but most techniques are applicable to most software. Just some food for thought.
from 90's bands, clapton, queen, classic jazz, parlament funkadelic and a couple more for christmas. Now i've changed my mind. F()ck these bastards. I will purchase music the day they stop being total asses. Geez, I am fed up with their attitude.
Actually I think it's closer to "buy a pure breed show dog and end up getting a pit bull that won't let you leave the house w/o a couple T-bone steaks." Or more like Ozzy's pet situation. You buy one dog and it ends up multiplying beyond control and craps on your expensive antique persian silk rug.
Not everything in the world is a stateful application server. It makes absolutely no sense to compare a stateless application server to a stateful one. Go to.NET application server page and look at what it says. For those too lazy, it states emphatically.NET application server does not support stateful persistence management.
if you want something stateful, you have to do it yourself. Anyone with a clue would never use EJB when all they need is a simple cache of Hashmap. The only thing that tells me is the consultants and the company that did the benchmark are either 1. idiots or 2. doing a poor job of hiding their bias. The fastest way to get blazing speed would have been to use a custom cache in resin with a simple hashmap that handles it for the webapp. Doing transaction in the database isn't the same as an application server that manages transaction in memory using Container Managed persistence.
It's just the usual marketing bs, move on, nothing to see here.
Are you sure? This paper here attempts to discuss the physical properties in scientific terms and questions the validity of the question. is glass liquid or solid.
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On the otherhand, if you are an existentialist and believe people are the sumb of their experience, then recording every waking moment would be equivalent to capturing you. But then again, I doubt the engineers are thinking of these philosphical issues.
Back in 95-96, these types of calculations for large complex proteins were typically sent to UCSD. In fact, most of the grad students working with these types of calculations all sent their jobs to UCSD supercomputing facility (if they were lucky). Some of the ones that I've seen took 1 week to finish. Not that I understood what I was looking at, but gridMathmatica should make it easier for grad students to use resources on their campus. Getting time or slots at UCSD's supercomputing facility took some serious butt kissing and wrangling. Atleast that's what I saw first hand. It may have changed since the 90's.
already have their own cluster, and grid systems? This should mean some small junior college or state college w/o tons of government research grants may be able to even the playing field. With the reduction of cost, it begins to make it easier for smaller research labs and schools to build grids. I remember assisting graduates studens prep processes so that it could be sent to UCSD's supercomputer. Now more universities will have their own system and be able to utilize their computer labs as grids at night. Atleast in theory.
hurray, hurray!!! Now US citizens should drive less, focus on family and less on accumulating gobs of money. This is great news indeed since the rest of the world doesn't care about the US, so that means no terrorist will want to bomb the US for exporting its aweful consumerist culture.
The underlying fear that makes the whole story interesting isn't that deep blue beat kasparov. It's a concrete example of technology dehumanizing and demoralizing a Grand Master. It has all the baggage of "fear of technology". It's all those fears movies like Terminator, War Games and other less notable movies try to explore. Who cares about deep blue. Lets talk about how fear of technology and loosing control make people obsess over the games deep blue played against kasparov.
The skills I acquired from literature classes help apply in more ways than I would have guessed. Take office politics for example. Literature classes teach you to extrapolate a characters motivations for their actions. Those skills help you navigate tough situations where politics are in play. Half your job as a programmer is navigating office politics, so those skills are critical to long term success as a programmer. Other skills in literature like learning how to deconstruct a piece of literature, to expose the underlying assumptions and framework. All these skills are applicable to every job because things are never what they seem. If you know your career will be programming, then major in something else. You will atleast graduate with a wider range of experience than if you stuck with CS.
Then again, do you really think script kiddies really care what you and I think? No software is perfect and will contain bugs. This is why there's QA and interative development. The real solution here isn't to place blame which American culture loves. The real solution is to make sure software is design and built to a high standard. Everything after the fact is simply rationalizations and poor attempts to deflect responsibility.
just noticed all my typos. good thing I don't proof read until it's too late :P
Those who think, "We should give MS a couple months to find an appropriate patch" are sadly misguided. Do you think a script kiddie or hacker is going to wait? Do you think they're going to say "Oh, I shouldn't do this because microsoft is a big company." Wake up people, the only way a company is going to put their top programmers on the job to fix the bug is when the threat moves from "possible" to "real". As much as I wish companies too exploits more seriously, the reality is they don't until it is percieved as a "real immediate threat."
Having used Tomcat quite a bit, some things aren't as easy as they should be. Doing a simple stand alone installation takes only a few minutes on a clean system, but frequently the system has weird configurations. There are certain things Tomcat documentation could use improvement, so the book is a nice addition. Often I find documentation is written for those with experience and isn't written in plain english for newbies. Looking at the number of posts on tomcat-user mailing list, more than half the questions are due to user error and documentation. More documentation is always a good thing. well most of the time.
Voice quality has nothing to the underlying transport of the signal. It has to do with how the carrier configures MSC (mobile switching center) and their network. Nokia, Ericcson and most of the big players have expressed an interest in making WCDMA the future platform for many reasons. The main one is better signal quality and higher capacity. 3G has the potential of 2.5-3x the capacity of 3G GSM/TDMA. The problem is the economy sucks, so rather than set the threshold for dropped packets higher, they leave it low to improve capacity. Basically, the companies are betting you're happy to get a signal over a fuzzy signal.
About the only thing modern society can lay claim to is disregaurd for nature and progressing genocide. Just because other cultures didn't create gargantuan polution factors, spewing tons of poisons every hour doesn't make them less advanced or some how backwards. We have the british and christianity to thank for that assinine perspective. "Manifest destiney" is a great excuse to rape and pilliage everything in sight for the sake of "advancement". I'm not claiming innocence here, just pointing how incredibly stupid we have been the last 500 years. Our ancestors managed to keep the planet relatively clean for 2K years, until some idiot started the industrial revolution. The achievements of organized religions are tremendous and horrifying. One one hand we have all the homeless people they save each year. On the other end, we have the rapid degeneration and depletion of the planet's resources. Something drastic changes have to happen in the next 100 years to turn things around. At the current, mother nature is going to come up with some super bug to wipe human kind off the face of the earth.
Like there is one definitive measurement of intelligence. Anyone stupid enough to claim to be intelligent is too stupid to realize he knows almost nothing.
If I could mod, I'd give it another point. ROTFLMAO
Back on topic. Making cheap and safe space travel would be a worthy goal. It would go a long way to making space more democratic and not just a playing field of super nations. Actually, scratch that. It's all BS. That 10 million would be better spent improving schools, health care and cleaning the environment.
comdex will go away and something else will take it's place eventually. the more things change the more they stay the same people. Hasn't anyone read the i-ching or any of the great dead philosophers? Damn near sighted people who think things are new are just too stupid to realize it's all part of the same old cycle.
Give you an example of a real problem I know first hand. It's a bit dated, but it is still a valid example. ISP A a medium sized ISP in San Diego county with approximately 100K subscribers runs 80 linux boxes for the user homepages. ISP A is primarily a Solaris and linux shop. Their total sys admin staff for supporting 200 or so servers is a team of 5 guys. ISP B also in San diego has about 10K subscribers, but is primarily a windows shop. ISP B runs two dedicated exchange servers, but is unable to provide reliable service. In fact their email is down daily and they have a staff of 3 sysadmins. Not only that, their DNS server is also windows, it continually hiccups and results in "domain not found." In fact, every windows based ISP that I have ever worked with has a much larger staff to support the equal number of subscribers. In many cases, the staff was 2X the linux/solaris shops. Let's say an experienced junior sys admin goes for 55-65K and a equivalent microsoft junior admin goes for 35-45K. Keep in mind these are old numbers and aren't accurate for the current market. if it take 5 unix admins to support 100K subscribers and it takes 3 MS sysadmins to support 10K subscribers, it could take from 10-30 MIS sysadmin to support 100K subscribers.
Therefore the TCO for 1 yr of unix staff for 100K subscribers would be about 450K including benefits and other costs. The equivalent for a microsoft shop could be as low as 500K and as high as 1.5million per year. Again, these are based on several years of experience with small, medium and large ISP's. In the end, every single ISP that starts out as a windows shop puts most of their critical components on a unix box. Things like email, firewall, dns, nntp and accounting are all on unix. Even ISP's that provide IIS hosting aren't pure windows. All of the big IIS hosting companies I know have unix for the critical functions.
when that job is no longer what you love to do, change your job. It's just that simple. Things work out in the end and hopefully when you're old and grey you won't be saying "I wish I quit that job and done something interesting." But then again, a large percentage of Americans think of jobs as "puts bread on the table."
That might have been the original idea, but get real people. If one were to look at the behavior of the top 100 corporations, does that rule hold true? As corporations weild more political power, they are becoming the equivalent of the ruling class. The only difference now is the rich get to hide behind some corporate name and not subject themself to public scrutiney. The more things change, the more they stay the same people.
I'll take an example of a nose for starters. In polygon modeling, a person would create different size spheres, do boolean add/subtract to get a rough shape. Once it gets close enough, a modeler will start pushing vertices. To get a sufficiently smoothe looking nose, one might need several thousand vertices, which makes pushing individual points very challenging. Nurbs on the otherhand go through the same process, but since every curve is a spline, you need fewer control vertices and therefore makes it easier. After all, if you only have to push/pull 100 control points vs 500 you're going to get your job done faster. Hash splines are fundamentally different than NURB's or polygons, therefore you can reduce the control vertices down even further.
Having gone through all that, what does this mean towards a job? In many cases like movie production, modeling is done with tracing physical models which are carved by skilled artists. Those tools are expensive and typically are beyond the reach of a student and most people.
The thing to keep in mind is learning all the various techniques and don't tie yourself to one software package, because the skills should transfer from one software to another. Also, have a firm understanding of lathing, boolean, extrusion and surfacing techniques. Back to the example of a human face. Modeling the human face depends in a large part on the type of animation you're going to do. If you're doing tons of voice animation and detailed facial expressions, it's important to design the mesh so that it follows the muscle structure. For example, doing facial animation in polygons is very hard because it's difficult to line up all the polygons so it matches up to the wrinkles. Where as NURB's tend to promote a verticle/horizontal grid. Most wrinkles on a human face line up on a nice grid. Hash splines give you that flexibility, because sometimes do you want a 3 point surface. One popular mesh design in NURB modeling for human faces is to extrude out from the mouth. Some techniques are directly affected by the technology, but most techniques are applicable to most software. Just some food for thought.
from 90's bands, clapton, queen, classic jazz, parlament funkadelic and a couple more for christmas. Now i've changed my mind. F()ck these bastards. I will purchase music the day they stop being total asses. Geez, I am fed up with their attitude.
Actually I think it's closer to "buy a pure breed show dog and end up getting a pit bull that won't let you leave the house w/o a couple T-bone steaks." Or more like Ozzy's pet situation. You buy one dog and it ends up multiplying beyond control and craps on your expensive antique persian silk rug.
It's not possible to say something witty for such a dumb post.
if you want something stateful, you have to do it yourself. Anyone with a clue would never use EJB when all they need is a simple cache of Hashmap. The only thing that tells me is the consultants and the company that did the benchmark are either 1. idiots or 2. doing a poor job of hiding their bias. The fastest way to get blazing speed would have been to use a custom cache in resin with a simple hashmap that handles it for the webapp. Doing transaction in the database isn't the same as an application server that manages transaction in memory using Container Managed persistence.
It's just the usual marketing bs, move on, nothing to see here.
Are you sure? This paper here attempts to discuss the physical properties in scientific terms and questions the validity of the question. is glass liquid or solid.