Don't you think you are being just a little dramatic?
I have a degree in Computer Science, and several years experience as a systems admin and a programmer, even did some of the foundation work on the Gentoo Linux distribution. I work at walmart.
The country of Riverside, CA government routinely posts jobs to the public which REQUIRE 3-4 years experience on their inhouse software.
Can I complain about bad interviews to? I submitted a story about bad interviews but its been pending in the que for *6 weeks* (what does that mean?). I had an interview for qualcomm for a 1 month temp position, and the interviewer asked a bunch of jack-ass quesitons, but this one sent me over the edge "where do you see yourself in 5 years?". To this I replied, "Not working at qualcom for 4 years and 11 months!"
I've always said I should be a hollywood writer... On a long LONG drive to northern california I figured out the only sensible way the matrix universe could work and still maintain total coherency. I was extremely disapointed in the movie when I found out, they didnt even try to explain the whole thing, so here we go for the slashdot crowd:
The universe in which the robots and humans reside is a *simulation* (not another matrix, but a simulation). The robots are vaguely aware of this, and have developed methods which allow them to manipulate the *real* universe a little. This manipulation is how they are able to program "people" and how agent smith is able to download himself into that guy. There would have been a great sub-plot about how the robots discovered this -- through their disection of humans (in the animatrix) they discover the biological equivalent of DEBUGGING facilities in humans. They discover strange indecipherable messages in biological processess. Even a monkey for a directory could have made this a memorable scene.
In retrospect, the point of the second movie would have been to demonstrate that the robots could program humans -- with food. With cookies, with pills, etc etc.
And finally, Neo, while not aware that the "real" universe is also a simulation, is able to manipulate it slightly as well -- this is why he can make shit blow up, and see without eyes.
Hollywood, I am your messiah and I'm unemployed:)
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I've never used Kylix, but there are similiar bugs in C++ Builder which make it unusable. I've never found a bug in the Graphics components, but the C++ standard library is FULL of bugs, even in trivial functions like strcpy(), the istream implementation is so bad its a joke. Even simple programs are impossible to write.
Why dont you do what I did, email him: howard@Princeton.EDU.
Or if you'd prefer to leave him a message (he's out of his office until the 7th) "Contact Lee Varian
(lvarian@princeton.edu) or Sally Van Fleet (sallyv@princeton.edu (609)258-2908)"
My g/f bought lemmings 3D for 4.99 at staples, and she still got *ripped off*. If I saw a psygnosis developer lying in the street bleeding I'd kick him as I walked by.
You hit the nail on the head my good friend. These devices are called "surface transducers" and they've been around as long as anyone can remember, although the application of this metal does seem new.
The reason we haven't been turning windows into speakers has nothing to do with the lack of a flexible alloy, its because windows SUCK as speakers. A good speaker needs to be strong *and* have a wide range of movement. Glass, and other surfaces hardly move at all and thus can really only reproduce high frequencies. If I'm talking out my ass and these guys have figured out all this stuff, then they'll be rich.
GNU Public Virus. It's a licensing approach that's very aggressively designed to promote certain ideas about how Free Software should work,
You've got a good post here, but Id like to pick at this statement. Nobody is forcing ANYONE to use GPL Software, or GPL code in their projects. If you don't like the license you are free to write the code yourself. End of story. People who whine about the GPL piss me off, they want *free code* and no responsibility. The GPL is Candy and the GPL says "You can have any of our candy, but you have to give our candy and your candy to anyone that asks." If you dont like that, don't take their candy and you are no worse off. none at all.
And please don't use analogies involving drugs. If you can't see the moral difference between crack and mp3s then you are in poor shape morally. And the kids won't believe a word you say.
What exactly is the difference between drugs and mp3s again?:) Both are artifically scarce, too expensive (cds that is), and a holy war has been launched against each of them so that ceartin entities may remain in denial about the realities of the world in which they live. And lastly, both are issues on which "the people" clearly disagree with the powers that be.
I'm in hemet and there is *no* information on the several fires in and around my town because the reporters are busy covering your big city fires:) (hemet is 70 or so miles from san diego and 30 from san bernadino/redlands). Sure, there will be information in the weekly paper, when it comes out in a few days...:) I agree with the poster that the lack of information at times is frustrating...
You're the smartest man on slashdot:) You are exactly right, and let me confirm your suspiscions now that you know WHY and I'll tell you HOW.
In an attempt to reduce costs, MS recycles *massive* ammounts of code and shoehorns that code into new roles. The problem is exactly what you say, poorly designed systems in the first place, with bugs, shoehorned into other poorly designed software, with bugs. The whole mess forms weird multi-dimensional bugs which are impossible to prevent, anticipate or otherwise deal with.
Roger penrose is a fucking idiot who people take seriously because he has a PHD and neat art on his books which make people assume he's smarter then the rest of us.
Penrose is an encyclopedia of poor science. His books make wild leap of faith arguments, and most importantly, he's commited the unforigivable error of having a hypothesis based on personal beliefs which he then searches for evidence to support.
At best Penrose practices metaphysics, and he definatley shouldn't be taken seriously.
The right you're talking about is called "Jurry Nullification" and there has been a conspiracy in the last 50 years to keep people ignorant of this right. Judges used to be obligated to INSTRUCT jurries of this right, now adays Ive met law students who don't know about it, and a man was actually threatened with jail time for passing out fliers about it infornt of a court house. (I'm not kidding). http://fija.org/
Unlike hard drives, CPUs do not have any moving parts, so there is a negligible acceleration in the physical deterioration of a chip when it is powered and active compared to when it is powered but idl
Yes and no. There is "electromigration" which is a process where the interconnects in CPU's break down. Presumably more use would accelerate the electromigration process. I've only ever seen one CPU die of electromigration in my lifetime, and it was a machine that had literally been on for 10 years since the day it was purchased.
But I agree with you heat is a much more immediate concern:)
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I have a degree in Computer Science, and several years experience as a systems admin and a programmer, even did some of the foundation work on the Gentoo Linux distribution. I work at walmart.
I don't think he's being overdramatic.
Can I complain about bad interviews to? I submitted a story about bad interviews but its been pending in the que for *6 weeks* (what does that mean?). I had an interview for qualcomm for a 1 month temp position, and the interviewer asked a bunch of jack-ass quesitons, but this one sent me over the edge "where do you see yourself in 5 years?". To this I replied, "Not working at qualcom for 4 years and 11 months!"
actually it not even that. Look at the RANGE of the chart, 16.8 to 17.8, so Nokia stock has "plummeted" 1$, or about 6%. Not much to worry about yet.
The universe in which the robots and humans reside is a *simulation* (not another matrix, but a simulation). The robots are vaguely aware of this, and have developed methods which allow them to manipulate the *real* universe a little. This manipulation is how they are able to program "people" and how agent smith is able to download himself into that guy. There would have been a great sub-plot about how the robots discovered this -- through their disection of humans (in the animatrix) they discover the biological equivalent of DEBUGGING facilities in humans. They discover strange indecipherable messages in biological processess. Even a monkey for a directory could have made this a memorable scene.
In retrospect, the point of the second movie would have been to demonstrate that the robots could program humans -- with food. With cookies, with pills, etc etc.
And finally, Neo, while not aware that the "real" universe is also a simulation, is able to manipulate it slightly as well -- this is why he can make shit blow up, and see without eyes.
Hollywood, I am your messiah and I'm unemployed :)
I've never used Kylix, but there are similiar bugs in C++ Builder which make it unusable. I've never found a bug in the Graphics components, but the C++ standard library is FULL of bugs, even in trivial functions like strcpy(), the istream implementation is so bad its a joke. Even simple programs are impossible to write.
Or if you'd prefer to leave him a message (he's out of his office until the 7th) "Contact Lee Varian (lvarian@princeton.edu) or Sally Van Fleet (sallyv@princeton.edu (609)258-2908)"
My g/f bought lemmings 3D for 4.99 at staples, and she still got *ripped off*. If I saw a psygnosis developer lying in the street bleeding I'd kick him as I walked by.
The reason we haven't been turning windows into speakers has nothing to do with the lack of a flexible alloy, its because windows SUCK as speakers. A good speaker needs to be strong *and* have a wide range of movement. Glass, and other surfaces hardly move at all and thus can really only reproduce high frequencies. If I'm talking out my ass and these guys have figured out all this stuff, then they'll be rich.
You should read about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide/a?.
You've got a good post here, but Id like to pick at this statement. Nobody is forcing ANYONE to use GPL Software, or GPL code in their projects. If you don't like the license you are free to write the code yourself. End of story. People who whine about the GPL piss me off, they want *free code* and no responsibility. The GPL is Candy and the GPL says "You can have any of our candy, but you have to give our candy and your candy to anyone that asks." If you dont like that, don't take their candy and you are no worse off. none at all.
What exactly is the difference between drugs and mp3s again? :) Both are artifically scarce, too expensive (cds that is), and a holy war has been launched against each of them so that ceartin entities may remain in denial about the realities of the world in which they live. And lastly, both are issues on which "the people" clearly disagree with the powers that be.
I wasn't actually trying to be critical, just providing an alternative perspective :)
I'm in hemet and there is *no* information on the several fires in and around my town because the reporters are busy covering your big city fires :) (hemet is 70 or so miles from san diego and 30 from san bernadino/redlands). Sure, there will be information in the weekly paper, when it comes out in a few days...:) I agree with the poster that the lack of information at times is frustrating ...
shhhhh! He's trying to get noticed by fox news.
all of the above.
In an attempt to reduce costs, MS recycles *massive* ammounts of code and shoehorns that code into new roles. The problem is exactly what you say, poorly designed systems in the first place, with bugs, shoehorned into other poorly designed software, with bugs. The whole mess forms weird multi-dimensional bugs which are impossible to prevent, anticipate or otherwise deal with.
I would have read Shadows of the Mind, but I decided he was an idiot 10 years ago after having read The Emperors new Mind :)
Penrose is an encyclopedia of poor science. His books make wild leap of faith arguments, and most importantly, he's commited the unforigivable error of having a hypothesis based on personal beliefs which he then searches for evidence to support.
At best Penrose practices metaphysics, and he definatley shouldn't be taken seriously.
The right you're talking about is called "Jurry Nullification" and there has been a conspiracy in the last 50 years to keep people ignorant of this right. Judges used to be obligated to INSTRUCT jurries of this right, now adays Ive met law students who don't know about it, and a man was actually threatened with jail time for passing out fliers about it infornt of a court house. (I'm not kidding). http://fija.org/
The lists file
Bit Torrent of actual diebold voting machine software. (probably illegal)
thats probably better then the "jews for jesus" who came to my university ... we were all just thinking "WHAT THE FUCK!!"
Ive often wondered about that here in california where a 12 pack of coronas is 14$.
Independant.co.uk's coverage of the story
Bit Torrent of bug traq articles about diebold machines.
Bit Torrent of actual diebold voting machine software. (probably illegal)
why am I not suprised to see them used in the same sentence? :)
Yes and no. There is "electromigration" which is a process where the interconnects in CPU's break down. Presumably more use would accelerate the electromigration process. I've only ever seen one CPU die of electromigration in my lifetime, and it was a machine that had literally been on for 10 years since the day it was purchased.
But I agree with you heat is a much more immediate concern:)