So how long until these magnets are used to detect their wearers?
Maybe that's desirable. Think about it, you could create locks that require you to move your fingers in various ways to unlock them; like a keypad without push-button "keys". A computer keyboard could be developed like this too. The possibilities are endless.
Oooh, sorry physics dude, you are right about resistance, but you forgot about SHIELDING.
Trust me, I used to use cheap cables, and when I upgraded to a Monster video cable I noticed that I had much better colour (indicating that before I was suffering from signal degradation), and the lines displayed by my TV were sharper.
Also I noticed when I upgraded to higher quality (not higher gauge) speaker wire I had MUCH better sound.
I know a lot of people like to bash expensive cables; but having moved from cheap cables to expensive cables, I can tell you that there definitely is a significant improvement in signal quality (except for digital signals of course; digital is digital). With my cheap cables, I even had banding of brightness across my TV; that disappeared with the Monster cables.
Perhaps you should research more into what makes Monster cables different before you go around telling people how the world works. My empirical observations have proven your physics theory to be false; time to come up with a new theory.
Regarding question 1; Yes, the University of Toronto Computer Science classes have been doing this for years, but mainly between groups within the same class or classes.
Question 2; I hate to point out the obvious, but they are not teaching you about "outsourcing"; they are really just using that as a term to describe what you will be doing. They are attempting to teach you how to work with others effectively when face-to-face communication is not always possible. In programming, this means properly internally and externally documenting code, and defining clear interfaces. Since this is a situation will come across very often in the working world, it is important to learn. Also, in this class you are not only held accountable to your professor, but also to the students in the other school.
I believe it is an excellent way to teach important lessons to students. When you have an interview with a company, I would suggest pointing out this class to the interviewers and telling them what you learned from it; it'll probably impress them. Have fun!:)
Is this news considered "new"?
This is exactly what Amazon did in order to forecast what book titles would sell the most money. They became the biggest web retailer because of this very same idea -- but many years ago. And now somebody at Cornell copies the idea but uses weblogs instead of IRC and newsgroups and suddenly he's "clever"?
I know lots of people are complaining that the information gleamed from this is not useful; but it is! It's an amazing way to forecast what will sell.
Here in Canada, I don't know ONE PERSON who doesn't have broadband -- even among people who don't know how to use a mouse-wheel.
Beyond ranting, it is my feeling that US broadband is far behind the times, and must catch up. Hopefully the new demand created by services such as this one will help to move the market forward.
I would like to reply to all the (American) people out there who claim that $80 CAD is peanuts.
First of all, doing a straight conversion of funds is NOT a fair way to compare value. Sure, $80 CAD is like 20 cents U.S., but $80 CAD to a Canadian in Canada has the same purchasing power as $80 USD does to an American in America (well, maybe closer to $70 USD).
Also, they fail to see that going from = $80/mo for internet usage is actually a 100% increase in cost of a service. This kind of thing is a big no-no in the business of providing a service. There is NO additional features or functionality, but there is a 100% increase in price. Unfortunately, Canadians are generally so conservative that they will allow themselves to be boiled like frogs without complaining [I am a Canadian, so I can say such things].
Naturally, the cable companies have to make money. That is fine. On average, I am a light internet user, but there are times when I like to download the latest Linux ISOs. I don't want to have to pay $80 to do it, or I might as well just buy Windows (which would at least give me a box to throw up into).
Did nobody take Grade 11 Economics in high school? The demand went up (which can be proven statistically), and the supply... well, it hasn't gone up since the.com crash. In fact I would contend it has gone down (but I can't prove that). Naturally, the prices increase as a consequence.
Stuff I learned in high school was actually useful.
Ah, I think, since you are unsure of the facts surrounding the reliability of different appservers (as am I), that you are really more concerned with "who to scream at" should your appserver go down.
One of the great fallacies of application hosting is that if there is somebody to scream at, you are somehow less responsible to your clients for the production screw-up than you would be if there was nobody but open-source developers to be frustrated with. [Yelling at open-source developers seldom helps your cause, no matter what it is.] Let's face it, your clients aren't going to care if you are blaming a commercial entity for the screw-up; it makes you look bad.
What you should be concerned with are:
1) Reliability - JBoss is more reliable than all other AppServers in use right now, and introduces cost savings because it is easier to use, and less buggy!
2) Support (NOT "blame") - I have used purchased appservers (well, admittedly "appserver"), and JBoss, and let me tell you; the JBoss group helped me quickly and easily with any problems I have had, wherewas the commercial product I was using was IMPOSSIBLE to get support for, even though my employers had paid big $$$ for it. [The same actually goes for all open source projects I have used.]
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So how long until these magnets are used to detect their wearers?
Maybe that's desirable. Think about it, you could create locks that require you to move your fingers in various ways to unlock them; like a keypad without push-button "keys". A computer keyboard could be developed like this too. The possibilities are endless.
Oooh, sorry physics dude, you are right about resistance, but you forgot about SHIELDING. Trust me, I used to use cheap cables, and when I upgraded to a Monster video cable I noticed that I had much better colour (indicating that before I was suffering from signal degradation), and the lines displayed by my TV were sharper. Also I noticed when I upgraded to higher quality (not higher gauge) speaker wire I had MUCH better sound. I know a lot of people like to bash expensive cables; but having moved from cheap cables to expensive cables, I can tell you that there definitely is a significant improvement in signal quality (except for digital signals of course; digital is digital). With my cheap cables, I even had banding of brightness across my TV; that disappeared with the Monster cables. Perhaps you should research more into what makes Monster cables different before you go around telling people how the world works. My empirical observations have proven your physics theory to be false; time to come up with a new theory.
Regarding question 1; Yes, the University of Toronto Computer Science classes have been doing this for years, but mainly between groups within the same class or classes.
:)
Question 2; I hate to point out the obvious, but they are not teaching you about "outsourcing"; they are really just using that as a term to describe what you will be doing. They are attempting to teach you how to work with others effectively when face-to-face communication is not always possible. In programming, this means properly internally and externally documenting code, and defining clear interfaces. Since this is a situation will come across very often in the working world, it is important to learn. Also, in this class you are not only held accountable to your professor, but also to the students in the other school.
I believe it is an excellent way to teach important lessons to students. When you have an interview with a company, I would suggest pointing out this class to the interviewers and telling them what you learned from it; it'll probably impress them. Have fun!
Is this news considered "new"? This is exactly what Amazon did in order to forecast what book titles would sell the most money. They became the biggest web retailer because of this very same idea -- but many years ago. And now somebody at Cornell copies the idea but uses weblogs instead of IRC and newsgroups and suddenly he's "clever"? I know lots of people are complaining that the information gleamed from this is not useful; but it is! It's an amazing way to forecast what will sell.
Here in Canada, I don't know ONE PERSON who doesn't have broadband -- even among people who don't know how to use a mouse-wheel. Beyond ranting, it is my feeling that US broadband is far behind the times, and must catch up. Hopefully the new demand created by services such as this one will help to move the market forward.
I would like to reply to all the (American) people out there who claim that $80 CAD is peanuts. First of all, doing a straight conversion of funds is NOT a fair way to compare value. Sure, $80 CAD is like 20 cents U.S., but $80 CAD to a Canadian in Canada has the same purchasing power as $80 USD does to an American in America (well, maybe closer to $70 USD). Also, they fail to see that going from = $80/mo for internet usage is actually a 100% increase in cost of a service. This kind of thing is a big no-no in the business of providing a service. There is NO additional features or functionality, but there is a 100% increase in price. Unfortunately, Canadians are generally so conservative that they will allow themselves to be boiled like frogs without complaining [I am a Canadian, so I can say such things]. Naturally, the cable companies have to make money. That is fine. On average, I am a light internet user, but there are times when I like to download the latest Linux ISOs. I don't want to have to pay $80 to do it, or I might as well just buy Windows (which would at least give me a box to throw up into).
Did nobody take Grade 11 Economics in high school? The demand went up (which can be proven statistically), and the supply ... well, it hasn't gone up since the .com crash. In fact I would contend it has gone down (but I can't prove that). Naturally, the prices increase as a consequence.
Stuff I learned in high school was actually useful.
Ah, I think, since you are unsure of the facts surrounding the reliability of different appservers (as am I), that you are really more concerned with "who to scream at" should your appserver go down.
One of the great fallacies of application hosting is that if there is somebody to scream at, you are somehow less responsible to your clients for the production screw-up than you would be if there was nobody but open-source developers to be frustrated with. [Yelling at open-source developers seldom helps your cause, no matter what it is.] Let's face it, your clients aren't going to care if you are blaming a commercial entity for the screw-up; it makes you look bad.
What you should be concerned with are:
1) Reliability - JBoss is more reliable than all other AppServers in use right now, and introduces cost savings because it is easier to use, and less buggy!
2) Support (NOT "blame") - I have used purchased appservers (well, admittedly "appserver"), and JBoss, and let me tell you; the JBoss group helped me quickly and easily with any problems I have had, wherewas the commercial product I was using was IMPOSSIBLE to get support for, even though my employers had paid big $$$ for it. [The same actually goes for all open source projects I have used.]
Daryl.