Or you could just use the correct tool for the job - a DSP. I don't know why people insist on solving all kinds of problems with PC hardware when much more efficient solutions (in terms of performance and developer effort) are available.
I was recently in a similar position: I wanted to work more scientifically instead of staying on the sales / project management route I was on since getting my BSEE. What I decided to do, since I am still young, is go back to university and get an MS. I'm planning to do a PhD after that, and am fairly confident that I will get some sort of technical R&D job when I'm finished.
Hopefully this idea will prompt the companies that still send out bills by post to reconsider this pointless waste of money/paper/time. Then this service will eventually become redundant, but will have served its purpose.
Anyone that has tried to read (or even tried to lift up) one of the oracle manuals knows that this is seriously feature-rich and complicated stuff. It would be more interesting to see how many bugs per line of code the two contenders have.
I certainly did not say that tv is quality family time - nothing could be further from the truth. But communication on the internet has become very social these days. I know of plenty of forums where the members even meet up in real life. Things really have changed in the last few years as far as the social experience goes. I have even noticed that females (yes, real ones) make up the majority of users on many sites now - a good indication that the web has become a place to socialise.
Sure, you can huddle around a screen that is getting its signal from your computer, but that is exactly the same as watching boring old TV. What you cannot do is share the keyboard/mouse that allows you to interact with the system - finding videos on YouTube for example.
A family cannot really huddle around the PC to watch stuff on YouTube, but I think individuals are definitely spending more time on the internet in general (not just TV, also forums etc.) and therefore less time in front of the TV. That's a good thing - the web is so much more interactive.
In my last job I was paid overtime per hour for time over 40 hrs a week. I ended up having to work a huge amount of overtime and at least I profited from this.
If I had been paid a fixed salary and still been expected to work 70-90 hrs a week, I would have resigned after a few months.
On the other side, I think paying overtime and having flexible hours is better for the companies too - they then only pay out a lot of money when they have a lot of work, and do not have to hire more people immediately whenever the current staff cannot get through their workload in 40 hrs.
This is reality. Welcome to the present.
And this reality has plenty of advantages:
- the sociable nature of the internet (see slashdot, myspace, youtube) over passive television watching
- the rapid flow of information on the net that makes people more informed and up-to-date than they used to be
- portable music players make public transport/airports etc much less unpleasant than they were before
- playing games all day is far more fun than collecting stamps or whatever geeks used to do before
The reason that this has become our reality is its superiority over what was (boring) reality before.
Where are they getting 100M from?
Could it be that the Wikipedia Foundation is considering to stop being a non-profit organisation and start placing advertising in its articles?
In the car plant I work at (which will have to remain nameless) the workers learn how to build cars by trial and error.
When a new model comes they start by producing only one a day. The cars that result from the first months of production are so bad that they have to be repaired by experts in a special hall, sometimes taking several days for each car.
The first hundred or so cars are only used for presentations, road tests and crash tests anyway, so it's no big deal if they don't look perfect.
Unfortunately, by the time the car goes into full production most of the workers still don't know what they are doing, and it takes a few hundred defect cars in a row before anyone decide to do anything about the problem.
I guess a system like this would be ideal for the starting phase of production, to train up the workers. The only problem is that whoever sets up the system in the beginning would have to know how to build the car in the optimal way (including all variations). Usually nobody has this knowledge until after the fact.
I don't know why people think a keyboard is such a bad thing. I can type much better than I can write, and I expect that goes for most PC users under the age of 50.
My laptop gives me amazing mobility. I can even use it without having a desk by putting it on my lap (hence the name LAPtop).
I just don't understand what is so revolutionary about the Tablet PC. Can someone please enlighten me?
Cars have tons of computing power already.
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"a 166 MHz RISC processor with 64MB RAM and 8MB video. That seems like a lot for a car"
No it doesn't, especially when you consider that modern cars contain several powerful computing devices for things like engine management, ABS/ESP, airbag control, and usually at least one CAN (Controller Area Network)Bus to link them all together.
I think most people underestimate the computing power already present in cars.
This argument popped up at several stages in the days of the NES and Sega Master system.
We PC gamers defended ourselves by saying that the PC allows for a richer and more varied gaming experience. PC games vary from RPGs all the way down to simple arcades type games, always have and always will.
Consoles are optimised for shallower gaming experiences like Tekken etc.
What I think the TV stations will do is merge the adverts into shows. This is already done in the movies, where big Fedex trucks are always driving across the screen, and the characters are always drinking Coca-Cola.
Just imagine the Enterprise with the characters replicating Coke instead of brandless drinks. Or Buffy running around with "Gap" on her shirt (if she doesn't already).
This kind of advertising would be impossible to remove without disturbing the actual content of the show.
Actually, Siemens and Thyssen (the companies behind the transrapid system) got a contract to deploy it in China last year. If I remember correctly it will run from Shanghai to some other city.
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To me, Doom was just the next iteration of Wolfenstein. Wolfenstein started the whole violent, popular fps id thing.
I thought Warcraft was just a clone of Dune 2.
Or you could just use the correct tool for the job - a DSP. I don't know why people insist on solving all kinds of problems with PC hardware when much more efficient solutions (in terms of performance and developer effort) are available.
It sounds very much like Sigma-Delta Modulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma-delta_modulati on). Lots of samples in time, fewer bits.
I was recently in a similar position: I wanted to work more scientifically instead of staying on the sales / project management route I was on since getting my BSEE. What I decided to do, since I am still young, is go back to university and get an MS. I'm planning to do a PhD after that, and am fairly confident that I will get some sort of technical R&D job when I'm finished.
Hopefully this idea will prompt the companies that still send out bills by post to reconsider this pointless waste of money/paper/time. Then this service will eventually become redundant, but will have served its purpose.
Anyone that has tried to read (or even tried to lift up) one of the oracle manuals knows that this is seriously feature-rich and complicated stuff. It would be more interesting to see how many bugs per line of code the two contenders have.
I certainly did not say that tv is quality family time - nothing could be further from the truth. But communication on the internet has become very social these days. I know of plenty of forums where the members even meet up in real life. Things really have changed in the last few years as far as the social experience goes. I have even noticed that females (yes, real ones) make up the majority of users on many sites now - a good indication that the web has become a place to socialise.
Sure, you can huddle around a screen that is getting its signal from your computer, but that is exactly the same as watching boring old TV. What you cannot do is share the keyboard/mouse that allows you to interact with the system - finding videos on YouTube for example.
A family cannot really huddle around the PC to watch stuff on YouTube, but I think individuals are definitely spending more time on the internet in general (not just TV, also forums etc.) and therefore less time in front of the TV. That's a good thing - the web is so much more interactive.
In my last job I was paid overtime per hour for time over 40 hrs a week. I ended up having to work a huge amount of overtime and at least I profited from this.
If I had been paid a fixed salary and still been expected to work 70-90 hrs a week, I would have resigned after a few months.
On the other side, I think paying overtime and having flexible hours is better for the companies too - they then only pay out a lot of money when they have a lot of work, and do not have to hire more people immediately whenever the current staff cannot get through their workload in 40 hrs.
No, they'll just update the Wii software so that all this will be encrypted. Much easier.
This is reality. Welcome to the present. And this reality has plenty of advantages: - the sociable nature of the internet (see slashdot, myspace, youtube) over passive television watching - the rapid flow of information on the net that makes people more informed and up-to-date than they used to be - portable music players make public transport/airports etc much less unpleasant than they were before - playing games all day is far more fun than collecting stamps or whatever geeks used to do before The reason that this has become our reality is its superiority over what was (boring) reality before.
Where are they getting 100M from? Could it be that the Wikipedia Foundation is considering to stop being a non-profit organisation and start placing advertising in its articles?
In the car plant I work at (which will have to remain nameless) the workers learn how to build cars by trial and error.
When a new model comes they start by producing only one a day. The cars that result from the first months of production are so bad that they have to be repaired by experts in a special hall, sometimes taking several days for each car.
The first hundred or so cars are only used for presentations, road tests and crash tests anyway, so it's no big deal if they don't look perfect.
Unfortunately, by the time the car goes into full production most of the workers still don't know what they are doing, and it takes a few hundred defect cars in a row before anyone decide to do anything about the problem.
I guess a system like this would be ideal for the starting phase of production, to train up the workers. The only problem is that whoever sets up the system in the beginning would have to know how to build the car in the optimal way (including all variations). Usually nobody has this knowledge until after the fact.
If I get caught with a camera at my place of work, I can and will get fired. I have to carry a cellphone with me though.
The same goes for many other people.
I guess this means that they will still have to make many cellphones without picture taking capabilities.
I don't know why people think a keyboard is such a bad thing. I can type much better than I can write, and I expect that goes for most PC users under the age of 50.
My laptop gives me amazing mobility. I can even use it without having a desk by putting it on my lap (hence the name LAPtop).
I just don't understand what is so revolutionary about the Tablet PC. Can someone please enlighten me?
"a 166 MHz RISC processor with 64MB RAM and 8MB video. That seems like a lot for a car"
No it doesn't, especially when you consider that modern cars contain several powerful computing devices for things like engine management, ABS/ESP, airbag control, and usually at least one CAN (Controller Area Network)Bus to link them all together.
I think most people underestimate the computing power already present in cars.
This argument popped up at several stages in the days of the NES and Sega Master system.
We PC gamers defended ourselves by saying that the PC allows for a richer and more varied gaming experience. PC games vary from RPGs all the way down to simple arcades type games, always have and always will.
Consoles are optimised for shallower gaming experiences like Tekken etc.
"opening this week in Koln Germany"
should read:
"opening this week in Cologne, Germany"
Köln is German for Cologne.
What I think the TV stations will do is merge the adverts into shows. This is already done in the movies, where big Fedex trucks are always driving across the screen, and the characters are always drinking Coca-Cola.
Just imagine the Enterprise with the characters replicating Coke instead of brandless drinks. Or Buffy running around with "Gap" on her shirt (if she doesn't already).
This kind of advertising would be impossible to remove without disturbing the actual content of the show.
Jesus!
Here in Germany we have a 37.5 hr working week.
Actually, Siemens and Thyssen (the companies behind the transrapid system) got a contract to deploy it in China last year. If I remember correctly it will run from Shanghai to some other city.
Simply put, tertiary education is one of the biggest dividing lines in the social strata.
A degree (as opposed to a certification) opens up oportunities to work at a high level in successful companies.
Do you think IBM global services, Deloitte, Accenture etc hire people without degrees? What do you think professional services means?
What about more technical jobs? Take a look at R&D at Cisco, Lucent etc; people working there have usually got postgrad degrees.
The choice is yours.
You can work tech support lines and make little VB script programs (or whatever) without a real education.
Alternatively, you can get a degree and be involved in making decisions that actually make a difference to the bigger picture.
Remember, real education gives you tools; technical certifications give you knowledge.
I know this is completely offtopic, but I can't believe my eyes.
.NET on the slashdot page I see before me!
/.ers who are reading comments about Linux and Solaris?!
There is a banner ad for Microsoft Visual Studio
Does MS know that they are paying to be laughed at by thousands of