We only have a handful of large players in the handset industry right now.
If it's like the PC industry, we'll get exactly what we want for dirt cheap from any one of a 1,000 different manufacturers operating on razor-thin margins.
If it's like the PC industry, we geeks who build our own rig want to build our own handsets
This may have been meant as a snarky comment, but it is true. Find it all and burn it until a barrel of oil costs more than a barrel of blood, only then can we focus on sustainability.
Unfortunately, by that time, this world simply can't sustain us anymore
I never own a touch-pad so I do not know how the thing functions or what's so special about it
Just wonder if there's anything from this "community release" that can be adapted to other Open-Source project - such as window-manager for Linux, or something like that?
There have been a lot of hues and cries about immigrants who are unfit for America - that they come here to suck up welfare, steal jobs, committing crime, bad influence all around, and so on....
Or, is it the other way around ?
America used to be America the Beautiful
America used to be The Land of Plenty
America used to be Heaven On Earth
America used to be THE place all immigrants want to go to - no matter if that immigrant was from Europe or Africa or Latin America or Asia - the United States of America, with its Statue of Liberty, is _the_ place to be
But nowadays... America is no longer the in place for many
Used to be that talents from all corners of the world flock to America - but - now, talents from America are flocking OUT.
When I was in America, the immigrants that I knew used to tell me that they planned to stay in America forever
But now... I meet them in Africa, in China, in India, in Brazil, in Korea...
And they are telling me a different story - that America is no longer the dream place - that the crime rate is getting intolerable, that their homeland provide them with more choices for their career, and so on...
For tens of thousands of years, musical instruments produced sounds because of a player striking something, plucking something, or blowing air over or through a tube (sometimes involving a reed or human lips simulating a reed) in some fashion.
I honestly think you may have been overlooked a critical thing
We are talking about "music", right?
Since the dawn of homonoid civilization, where-ever "music" was played, it was played live
The presenters and audiences were all gathered at the same spot, so to share, or add to, the soundwaves that were at that place
Since the beginning of sound-recording, the advent of (wireless) radio-transmission of sound-recording, this thing we refer as "music" had already been changed
The digitalization of the soundwave (including "music") - and the creation of gadgets like "beat machines" - is but another rotation of that giant wheel of human innovation that had been keeping going forward, and will keep on going forward until God knows when
I can't speak for others, I can only speak for myself
I've been in this field for decades, and the one thing that I've found is this ---
If you're talking about Performance - for most apps, it's almost the 10%-25% of the code that takes up 80%-90% of the data-crunching time
Or, put it another way, when there is a need to really tune up the performance of an app, you need to understand how the code runs
And to do that, you need to profile the whole darn thing, fine where it takes most of the time, and then concentrate your effort on fine-tuning those segments
But of course, if you are a perfectionist - such as Steve Gibson of the GRC fame, - you can opt to go all the way to assembly language (I love asm, btw) and do the tweaking
Disclaimer: I am far from being great programmer, but I did have opportunities to learn from several great programmers that I had the fortune to work with, throughout my career
It's the clash in between the Liberals and the Conservatives - leaving so much grey areas in between that people in the middle do not know how to handle
On one side the Liberals declare that people entering the USA, even illegally, should be considered as "legal", so long as they do not make trouble
On the other side, the Conservatives reacted by enacting local state laws such as what Arizona, Alabama, Virginia are doing
There are many born and bred Americans who do look like Mexicans or people from Latin America - these are the people who will be harassed, whose liberty will be threatened, just because they "do not look like Americans"
On the other hand, there are black-skinned people from abroad (from Latin America and Africa) that you just can not differentiate from African Americans - and they are the fortunate ones, because no one will dare to check their ID, for fear that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson will jump on their throats
America is in a bad shape right now - not only economically but also in term of competitiveness - and America just can NOT waste more time shadow boxing with itself
Except that so very little of programming these days is about algorithms
True, very true !!
Being a "top coder" is in it self a very good thing of course, but there are very few companies that actually work with technical details like implementing a better hash algorithm and so forth.
Actually, not quite
Top coders in this age are a bit different from the top coders 20 years ago
Top coders today needs to realize what you've already outlined, plus, he or she needs to understand the shift of the industry
Or to put it another way - top coders of today must be a step ahead of his or her manager, and are well prepared for any changes that might happen 1, 2 or even 5 years from now
The end result is, the top geek is no longer a geek
It does altered the Net in some ways - such as the proliferation of smilies
Smilies were started way before AoL, for sure. Even in the days of BBS - FidoNet - we were already using smilies
But it was the AoL which popularized smilies, and they invented new crops of smilies, as well as many new "compacted words", such as "LOL", "STFU", and so on
If your entire businiess model rests on having a closed off IM network in the year 2012, you may want to rethink things...
In 2008, it would've been a perfect. They could have used their then-relevant market share as a springboard to have made BBM into *the* data-based messaging platform, making PingChat/WhatsApp/Kik/LiveProfile/eBuddy/iMessage/GoChat/ChatON all nonstarters...and they could have charged $1 a month for a BBM pin and *everyone* would have been on it
The question is whether they could still do it, in 2012, for free
It's a common blind-spot for almost all companies ever existed, and it's not the first time either, companies folded because of the blind-spot
The problem being highlighted is that journalists were(understandably, given the pressure for ad impressions; but very arguably unethically) overstating the amount of information they were actually bringing to their readers. Regurgitating press releases makes you a flack; but it isn't inherently unethical. Re-labelling press releases as 'news' and then regurgitating them is another matter entirely...
Actually, the entire thing boils down to... many of those who call themselves "journalists" have neither the journalistic integrity nor the will power to become a real journalist
Those who tell stories should be known as "Story Teller", not journalists.
To be a true journalist is actually not easy - it's always a tight-rope act when the situation demands an independent view
It is one of the reasons why the so-called "journalism" we have today are mostly crap
If you have a problem with this then you should go talk to the US State Department, the White House, the governments of most western countries, and the UN.
Umm...
It's true that the US state department, the White House, govs of most western countries are all in this "don't sell nothing to Iran" pact, I do not think UN ever issue any order prohibiting selling iPAD to Iranian
Apart from their ad, what they said about Top Coders was interesting - with the exception of top coders memorizing who books filled with algorithms, because top coders do not memorize nothing - top coders do not get to be top coders by memorizing.
Instead, top coders have that instinct to _know_ which algorithm to adapt and apply, and top coders know where (and how to) look for the algorithm (either from their own archive, from books, from old magazines, or from some strange corners on the Web)
If extending more human rights to more people makes you uncomfortable, then I for one am happy that you fucked off and went home.
If gay marriage is "extending more human rights to more people" I am very happy to tell you that I am not in a country where the term "human rights" has been abused to the point of no return
But I also know that I simply can't protect them 24/7
Instead, I teach them ways to protect themselves
I teach them how to discern the good from the bad, the right from the wrong, and why something are "Right", and others are "Wrong"
Services like "Net Nanny" (and others) can only give an illusion of "protection" - and parents all over, always like the feeling of instant gratification, that "My Kids Are Protected"
Sure, I am worry about the safety of my kids, but I prefer to let them learn, from the real world, rather than creating an artificial green-house so that my kids are insulated from the real world out there
Perhaps my approach is wrong
Perhaps I am a bad dad
But that's what I did, and that's what I do, and what I will do, for my children, whom I adore !!
Slashdot Mirror
what about the next? I mean... were will you manage to find another Bruce Willis, Einstein?
We can always send up Tom Cruise
We only have a handful of large players in the handset industry right now.
If it's like the PC industry, we'll get exactly what we want for dirt cheap from any one of a 1,000 different manufacturers operating on razor-thin margins.
If it's like the PC industry, we geeks who build our own rig want to build our own handsets
When can we do that?
This may have been meant as a snarky comment, but it is true. Find it all and burn it until a barrel of oil costs more than a barrel of blood, only then can we focus on sustainability.
Unfortunately, by that time, this world simply can't sustain us anymore
I never own a touch-pad so I do not know how the thing functions or what's so special about it
Just wonder if there's anything from this "community release" that can be adapted to other Open-Source project - such as window-manager for Linux, or something like that?
As long as there are money to spend, Krugman is always on top of it, guaranteed !
... or is it the other way around ?
There have been a lot of hues and cries about immigrants who are unfit for America - that they come here to suck up welfare, steal jobs, committing crime, bad influence all around, and so on ....
Or, is it the other way around ?
America used to be America the Beautiful
America used to be The Land of Plenty
America used to be Heaven On Earth
America used to be THE place all immigrants want to go to - no matter if that immigrant was from Europe or Africa or Latin America or Asia - the United States of America, with its Statue of Liberty, is _the_ place to be
But nowadays ... America is no longer the in place for many
Used to be that talents from all corners of the world flock to America - but - now, talents from America are flocking OUT.
When I was in America, the immigrants that I knew used to tell me that they planned to stay in America forever
But now ... I meet them in Africa, in China, in India, in Brazil, in Korea ...
And they are telling me a different story - that America is no longer the dream place - that the crime rate is getting intolerable, that their homeland provide them with more choices for their career, and so on ...
Okay, here's the list that I can find:
Hydrogen
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/?p=main
OrDrumBox
http://www.ordrumbox.com/
OpenBeatBox
Mac
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/Open-Beat-Box.shtml
Linux
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Open-Beat-Box-4095.shtml
Koblo
http://koblo.com/beta
Free Cycle
http://freecycle.redsteamrecords.com/
Anymore?
Please feel free to tag on ...
For tens of thousands of years, musical instruments produced sounds because of a player striking something, plucking something, or blowing air over or through a tube (sometimes involving a reed or human lips simulating a reed) in some fashion.
I honestly think you may have been overlooked a critical thing
We are talking about "music", right?
Since the dawn of homonoid civilization, where-ever "music" was played, it was played live
The presenters and audiences were all gathered at the same spot, so to share, or add to, the soundwaves that were at that place
Since the beginning of sound-recording, the advent of (wireless) radio-transmission of sound-recording, this thing we refer as "music" had already been changed
The digitalization of the soundwave (including "music") - and the creation of gadgets like "beat machines" - is but another rotation of that giant wheel of human innovation that had been keeping going forward, and will keep on going forward until God knows when
Just my 2-cents
This is entirely a right-wing issue, and the flames of racism are being fanned entirely by so-called "conservatives"
Oh, c'mon !!!
If blaming everything on the "Conservatives" can make America a better place, you'll have my full support
But it ain't gonna be that way
You insisted that there is no liberal ever support the illegals, in fact, you said:
I've literally never, in my entire life, heard any self-described "liberal" say this.
Well, isn't Obama a "Liberal" ?
What about Obama's Immigration Directive ?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/obama-immigration-order-deportation-dream-act_n_1599658.html
"Obama Administration To Stop Deporting Younger Undocumented Immigrants And Grant Work Permits"
What are you going to say about that, buddy ??
I can't speak for others, I can only speak for myself
I've been in this field for decades, and the one thing that I've found is this ---
If you're talking about Performance - for most apps, it's almost the 10%-25% of the code that takes up 80%-90% of the data-crunching time
Or, put it another way, when there is a need to really tune up the performance of an app, you need to understand how the code runs
And to do that, you need to profile the whole darn thing, fine where it takes most of the time, and then concentrate your effort on fine-tuning those segments
But of course, if you are a perfectionist - such as Steve Gibson of the GRC fame, - you can opt to go all the way to assembly language (I love asm, btw) and do the tweaking
Disclaimer: I am far from being great programmer, but I did have opportunities to learn from several great programmers that I had the fortune to work with, throughout my career
The biggest problem facing the States isn't MIB
It's the clash in between the Liberals and the Conservatives - leaving so much grey areas in between that people in the middle do not know how to handle
On one side the Liberals declare that people entering the USA, even illegally, should be considered as "legal", so long as they do not make trouble
On the other side, the Conservatives reacted by enacting local state laws such as what Arizona, Alabama, Virginia are doing
There are many born and bred Americans who do look like Mexicans or people from Latin America - these are the people who will be harassed, whose liberty will be threatened, just because they "do not look like Americans"
On the other hand, there are black-skinned people from abroad (from Latin America and Africa) that you just can not differentiate from African Americans - and they are the fortunate ones, because no one will dare to check their ID, for fear that the NAACP and Jesse Jackson will jump on their throats
America is in a bad shape right now - not only economically but also in term of competitiveness - and America just can NOT waste more time shadow boxing with itself
Except that so very little of programming these days is about algorithms
True, very true !!
Being a "top coder" is in it self a very good thing of course, but there are very few companies that actually work with technical details like implementing a better hash algorithm and so forth.
Actually, not quite
Top coders in this age are a bit different from the top coders 20 years ago
Top coders today needs to realize what you've already outlined, plus, he or she needs to understand the shift of the industry
Or to put it another way - top coders of today must be a step ahead of his or her manager, and are well prepared for any changes that might happen 1, 2 or even 5 years from now
The end result is, the top geek is no longer a geek
... I agree
The Chinese can't really handle much alcohol but still they drink as if there's no tomorrow
You just can't tell the Chinese host that you do not drink - it's outright impolite to do so
Umm... I didn't say that AOL "invented all the smilies", did I?
However, I did say that AOl "popularize" the smilies as well as invented new crops of smilies
As one of the first 10,000 hooked to the actual internet
Then you and I are more or less, of the same batch
One thing good about AOL (in those days) was that I got free diskettes, thanks to AOL :)
China is dynamic and hungry for all kinds of talent.
True, but unfortunately, the author is not the kind China is looking for
China looks for talents who are pro-active, who do not wait for others to hire him
The talents China really wants are those who can add to what China offers, not those who rely on whatever China has
I know what I am talking about - I have businesses in China
I read it on Slashdot, so it must be true.
TFTFY
I can't say AoL destroyed the Internet
It does altered the Net in some ways - such as the proliferation of smilies
Smilies were started way before AoL, for sure. Even in the days of BBS - FidoNet - we were already using smilies
But it was the AoL which popularized smilies, and they invented new crops of smilies, as well as many new "compacted words", such as "LOL", "STFU", and so on
As I have posted, I can't mod
If I hadn't, I would mod the parent up, for "Insightful"
If your entire businiess model rests on having a closed off IM network in the year 2012, you may want to rethink things...
In 2008, it would've been a perfect. They could have used their then-relevant market share as a springboard to have made BBM into *the* data-based messaging platform, making PingChat/WhatsApp/Kik/LiveProfile/eBuddy/iMessage/GoChat/ChatON all nonstarters...and they could have charged $1 a month for a BBM pin and *everyone* would have been on it
The question is whether they could still do it, in 2012, for free
It's a common blind-spot for almost all companies ever existed, and it's not the first time either, companies folded because of the blind-spot
Kodak is the perfect example
The problem being highlighted is that journalists were(understandably, given the pressure for ad impressions; but very arguably unethically) overstating the amount of information they were actually bringing to their readers. Regurgitating press releases makes you a flack; but it isn't inherently unethical. Re-labelling press releases as 'news' and then regurgitating them is another matter entirely...
Actually, the entire thing boils down to ... many of those who call themselves "journalists" have neither the journalistic integrity nor the will power to become a real journalist
Those who tell stories should be known as "Story Teller", not journalists .
To be a true journalist is actually not easy - it's always a tight-rope act when the situation demands an independent view
It is one of the reasons why the so-called "journalism" we have today are mostly crap
If you have a problem with this then you should go talk to the US State Department, the White House, the governments of most western countries, and the UN.
Umm ...
It's true that the US state department, the White House, govs of most western countries are all in this "don't sell nothing to Iran" pact, I do not think UN ever issue any order prohibiting selling iPAD to Iranian
I lied for the first time when I was 5 years
It sure took you a loooonnnnnnggggggggg time to lie
The first time I lied?
I lied even before I could talk !! :)
They did have an ad to lure in "Top Coders" at http://developers.memsql.com/blog/
Apart from their ad, what they said about Top Coders was interesting - with the exception of top coders memorizing who books filled with algorithms, because top coders do not memorize nothing - top coders do not get to be top coders by memorizing.
Instead, top coders have that instinct to _know_ which algorithm to adapt and apply, and top coders know where (and how to) look for the algorithm (either from their own archive, from books, from old magazines, or from some strange corners on the Web)
If extending more human rights to more people makes you uncomfortable, then I for one am happy that you fucked off and went home.
If gay marriage is "extending more human rights to more people" I am very happy to tell you that I am not in a country where the term "human rights" has been abused to the point of no return
I have kids of my own
I love them
I like to think of ways to protect them
But I also know that I simply can't protect them 24/7
Instead, I teach them ways to protect themselves
I teach them how to discern the good from the bad, the right from the wrong, and why something are "Right", and others are "Wrong"
Services like "Net Nanny" (and others) can only give an illusion of "protection" - and parents all over, always like the feeling of instant gratification, that "My Kids Are Protected"
Sure, I am worry about the safety of my kids, but I prefer to let them learn, from the real world, rather than creating an artificial green-house so that my kids are insulated from the real world out there
Perhaps my approach is wrong
Perhaps I am a bad dad
But that's what I did, and that's what I do, and what I will do, for my children, whom I adore !!