Right through my high school and university days, I heard the exact same story. It's actually why I switched from my goal of science leading either to research or medicine and went for a career in tech.
I graduated from a top tier school in May 2000 with a computer science major and electrical engineering minor. In my last year, I was actively recruited, I got flown across the US for interviews with companies everyone here has heard of. I went to one company's 1999 Christmas party including a private concert by an A-list music group everyone here has heard of; they invited a number of seniors in my class as part of their recruitment effort.
I chose a job that started me just over $60,000 plus stock options which was at the upper end of average for 2000 and had huge potential to take me into 6 figures within a few years. Factoring in my minor, I was writing the firmware for a set top internet appliance (hey it was 2000). A few months after I started the job, the original dotcom bubble burst and I actually only had the job 18 months...not even long enough to cover the cost of my degree.
This was 2001 it was almost impossible to find tech jobs at the time, after about 3 years of unemployment I gave up and took a job at much lower pay where most of my coworkers don't have any degree at all. So, 4 years working my ass off for a degree which cost me over $100k while the arts students working in the coffee shop were out partying and making fun of us for working so hard. All to work 18 months in the industry. Most of my friends from school had been laid off by 2002 and never worked in tech again. The last one lost his job 2 years ago and has been out of work since. So 40 years old, no job, no prospects to ever work in his field again.
Now before you say I'm just an unfortunate case...how many 20-something IT workers do you see? Now how many 50-somethings? Where do you think the rest of us are? You hear stories about companies begging mainframe workers to come out of retirement, again bull shit, that friend who's been out of work has been doing mainframe work for the past 15 years, there is no work in the field.
tl;dr - A tech career is a curse I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Getting a computer science degree from a top tier school is the worst mistake I made in my life.
You can't really get a round hole in a fibrous material like cardboard. It's best to just make an oversized hole, tape some aluminum foil over it and then carefully poke a pinhole through the foil.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
The best part of Sony is your wish will be granted. With proprietary lock in once you start, you just can't stop giving Sony money.
Last photo course I took the guy with the Sony DSLR had to buy a $250 adapter to use the studio strobe radio trigger....same trigger plugged right into our Nikons and Canons.
Enjoy your memory stick duo, rootkit CDs and proprietary audio formats.
It is amazing that Sony is trying to release a single-board computer to the hobbiest market. Every single customer in their target group hates them with a passion.
So China is resurrecting an ultra-modern rail service that allows people to travel from Shanghai to Beijing in 4.5 hours. This will save a million person-hours a year -- 1 million trips at 1 hour saved per trip.
Meanwhile the US is resurrecting its coal industry which will save pension plans billions of dollars a year by poisoning people to death younger and make billions of dollars more for the wealth mine owners.
Even worse, pretty much every science fair project has to have a conclusion to get anywhere. Teachers don't let kids run an experiment where the conclusion is that the test didn't have any findings that support accepting or rejecting the hypothesis. That is not only a perfectly acceptable result in science, but a very good one to find. I encouraged this behavior in projects where kids "concluded" something invalid by running statistical analysis they didn't understand. Excel will give you a trend line even if there is no trend. It's hard to tell a kid their science project found nothing, but in science, that's how most experiments should end up.
Not sure where you went to school, but it wasn't a very good school/district. In my science fairs (in Ontario) the teachers encouraged reporting unexpected or inconclusive results, as long as you investigate what actually happened, it's the best learning opportunity. My grade 11 Bio teacher wouldn't ever give full marks if nothing went wrong. My project was on starch content and distribution in plant leaves under different conditions, and I accidentally picked a type of plant where the leaves had a very glossy skin which made it hard to measure and get a conclusive result (after 3 months of growing the plants in different conditions). The teacher loved the fact that I couldn't offer a conclusion and I just had a detailed writeup of where I went wrong.
Well I'm not paid $30 million a year by the government as a consultant to come up with solutions, but here's one off the top of my head...
Rather than force private sector businesses to subsidize employee lifestyles beyond what their work is worth, allow the employer to pay a reasonable wage for the work (say $10/hour, again I'm pulling numbers out of the air here). Then, use the money you'd otherwise waste on a UBI and welfare to top up the amount paid by the employer to a reasonable living wage (say $15/hour). There you go....reasonable expenses for the employers, reasonable income for the employee, and you don't have the majority of your population sitting on theirs assess doing nothing and living pathetic wasted lives.
As far as getting people's incomes beyond that $15, anything the employer pays beyond $10, you decrease the subsidy by half. If the employer pays $12/hours, decrease the subsidy to $4 and the person makes $16. If the employer pays $18, the worker takes home $19. That way you don't have a situation where employers are unable to pay between $10 and $15 and giving the person a $1/hour raise would cost the employer $6.
We can solve NP problems by converting them to very inefficient deterministic problems and using deterministic algorithms. An NP algorithm would solve it in a nondeterministic way.
Factoring a large number by dividing by every prime up to its square root is a deterministic algorithm even though factoring is an NP problem
When you talking about computing all possibilities in parallel, you totally misunderstand quantum mechanics, that is not how quantum physics works, and we don't know yet how it works. For example, under the Many-Worlds Interpretation what you said *sort of* makes sense. Under the Copenhagen Interpretation, it's nonsense. And all these interpretations are just abstractions for things nobody understands.
a) First both NASA and Russia originally used pencils. Pencils leave a lot of electrically conductive dust when you write which you don't want on a space ship in microgravity.
b) The Fisher company spent $1 million developing their zero gravity pen on their own. They had nothing to do with NASA, public money was not spent on the development. They created a pen that could write upside down, under water, in extreme hot or cold. And it was created to sell to the public at a profit.
Starting in 1968 both NASA and the Russian space agency started buying them for $2.39 (retail price was $3.98).
Read the post I was replying to to understand the context of what I said.
This is *not* going to lead to "Cumulative storage capacity of a datacenter has now the potential to grow enormously", which is the entire meaning of my previous post. There certainly will be uses for this product, but the higher density is not going to lead to higher capacity datacenters.
At 50 cents per gig, the flash is worth about $500,000 for this PB. Spinning platters are under 5 cents per gig. $50,000 for this PB.
For most datacenter storage purposes, the spinning platters are not a bottleneck. The new product is cool and will be very useful in a few specific applications, but it is not going to change much for datacenters. The flash SSD will also save power as well as space, but not enough to justify 10x the upfront cost. Maybe next generation.
I built a crystal radio when I was 6. It also required the user to wear a mono earpiece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess my 6 year old self was smarter than the researchers they have at the University of Washington.
Duracell is the only brand I won't buy. They always leak. I had a table ruined because the duracell batteries in the clock on the table leaked so badly (and the clock was still running). Maglite, xbox controllers, digital scales...everything I own that's ever touched a duracell has corrosion on it. And they don't honor their warranty at all for the past 5 years. They can't since they'd be bankrupt replacing all the things they've ruined. And if you don't believe me, google it. It's just duracell.
New codecs like H.265 and VP9 need 5x the servers costs because of their complexity. Currently, AV1 needs over 20x the server costs.
You encode the file once (which may well take 5 or 20 times the processor power) and upload to the server which will then save bandwidth and storage costs because of the smaller file size.
Except the bloat kills reliability and speed. And that kills functionality
All software so so buggy these days it's amazing anything works at all. But it's so easy to push parches, who cares about getting it right the first (or twenty-first) time?
Win 95 came on 13 1.68 MB DMF floppies. DMF was a special format giving you 21 sectors per track (maybe that's where the 21 came from). It would have been 15 1.44 MB floppies, and DMF was much harder to copy, at least at first.
Also, you think the simplistic little facebook App is worth 20 times the space of all of windows 95?
40 megapixels don't mean anything. You have to look at the resolving capability of the lens. You need a much better quality lens for a smaller sensor because you're focusing on a smaller area. Do you think your partner's Nokia lens beats a mid-range DSLR lens?
Then when you crop, you're taking an even smaller segment of the original image cast by the lens. When I crop or zoom my DSLR images, I have a razor sharp image which gets pixelated as I zoom. When you do the same on a point and shoot or any cell phone, it gets fuzzy and blurry long before it gets to pixels.
Or how about code for 90% of the slashdot reader base doesn't give a damn about Trump and there American wingnuts on both sides because either we're outside the US or live in the US and have better things to do than beat dead horses. This is news for nerds, not fapping for political pundit wannabes.
I took a college program in applied electromagnetics in Toronto Canada meant for people who already have an undergraduate degree in EE (mine is from UWaterloo). There was one other Canadian in my class, a Russian, and the rest were all from India. The instructors were all fresh off the boat from India as well.
The Indian students did not understand the most basic bit of theory, they could not count to 8 in binary. The teachers were the worst racist scum I have ever encountered. They made fun of the Canadians constantly, the way we run our businesses, the way we drive, the way we shop, everything. They also had the Indian students convinced that the teachers would personally deport them from Canada if they acted out.
The course material was the most basic stuff from first year undergrad except rather than teaching theory so you understand what you're doing, it's just rote memorization of equations. No wonder the students had no clue what any of the material actually meant.
The point is that for Apple to spend $7 billion building the factory, they will get handed $14 billion from the government. Huge net loss for america and plenty more jobs could have been created with $14 billion.
And so trump gets his kickback not from a normal construction project but for handing apple $14 billion in tax money that would be better spent elsewhere.
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Right through my high school and university days, I heard the exact same story. It's actually why I switched from my goal of science leading either to research or medicine and went for a career in tech.
I graduated from a top tier school in May 2000 with a computer science major and electrical engineering minor. In my last year, I was actively recruited, I got flown across the US for interviews with companies everyone here has heard of. I went to one company's 1999 Christmas party including a private concert by an A-list music group everyone here has heard of; they invited a number of seniors in my class as part of their recruitment effort.
I chose a job that started me just over $60,000 plus stock options which was at the upper end of average for 2000 and had huge potential to take me into 6 figures within a few years. Factoring in my minor, I was writing the firmware for a set top internet appliance (hey it was 2000). A few months after I started the job, the original dotcom bubble burst and I actually only had the job 18 months...not even long enough to cover the cost of my degree.
This was 2001 it was almost impossible to find tech jobs at the time, after about 3 years of unemployment I gave up and took a job at much lower pay where most of my coworkers don't have any degree at all. So, 4 years working my ass off for a degree which cost me over $100k while the arts students working in the coffee shop were out partying and making fun of us for working so hard. All to work 18 months in the industry. Most of my friends from school had been laid off by 2002 and never worked in tech again. The last one lost his job 2 years ago and has been out of work since. So 40 years old, no job, no prospects to ever work in his field again.
Now before you say I'm just an unfortunate case...how many 20-something IT workers do you see? Now how many 50-somethings? Where do you think the rest of us are? You hear stories about companies begging mainframe workers to come out of retirement, again bull shit, that friend who's been out of work has been doing mainframe work for the past 15 years, there is no work in the field.
tl;dr - A tech career is a curse I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Getting a computer science degree from a top tier school is the worst mistake I made in my life.
Because someone has custom software written around another file system?
The point is that no matter how good APFS is, there many be reasons some users can't use it. Apple's our way for f*** you is just plain wrong.
Add to that, Apple never gets version 1 right...it makes sense to hold off adapting an entire new file system for a few months.
You can't really get a round hole in a fibrous material like cardboard. It's best to just make an oversized hole, tape some aluminum foil over it and then carefully poke a pinhole through the foil.
Do you have a program that assembles random words into a sentence?
I hope not...that's the last marketable skill people with MBA's have. If we automate it, imagine the horror when those people disperse into the rest of society.
The best part of Sony is your wish will be granted. With proprietary lock in once you start, you just can't stop giving Sony money.
Last photo course I took the guy with the Sony DSLR had to buy a $250 adapter to use the studio strobe radio trigger....same trigger plugged right into our Nikons and Canons.
Enjoy your memory stick duo, rootkit CDs and proprietary audio formats.
It is amazing that Sony is trying to release a single-board computer to the hobbiest market. Every single customer in their target group hates them with a passion.
So China is resurrecting an ultra-modern rail service that allows people to travel from Shanghai to Beijing in 4.5 hours. This will save a million person-hours a year -- 1 million trips at 1 hour saved per trip.
Meanwhile the US is resurrecting its coal industry which will save pension plans billions of dollars a year by poisoning people to death younger and make billions of dollars more for the wealth mine owners.
Why does the fact that it's powered by a tiny little battery bother you?
I can use FLAC and wired Sennheiser HD800's and if I use a tiny little battery with the set up or AC line powered isn't going to effect how it sounds.
Even worse, pretty much every science fair project has to have a conclusion to get anywhere. Teachers don't let kids run an experiment where the conclusion is that the test didn't have any findings that support accepting or rejecting the hypothesis. That is not only a perfectly acceptable result in science, but a very good one to find. I encouraged this behavior in projects where kids "concluded" something invalid by running statistical analysis they didn't understand. Excel will give you a trend line even if there is no trend. It's hard to tell a kid their science project found nothing, but in science, that's how most experiments should end up.
Not sure where you went to school, but it wasn't a very good school/district. In my science fairs (in Ontario) the teachers encouraged reporting unexpected or inconclusive results, as long as you investigate what actually happened, it's the best learning opportunity. My grade 11 Bio teacher wouldn't ever give full marks if nothing went wrong. My project was on starch content and distribution in plant leaves under different conditions, and I accidentally picked a type of plant where the leaves had a very glossy skin which made it hard to measure and get a conclusive result (after 3 months of growing the plants in different conditions). The teacher loved the fact that I couldn't offer a conclusion and I just had a detailed writeup of where I went wrong.
Well I'm not paid $30 million a year by the government as a consultant to come up with solutions, but here's one off the top of my head...
Rather than force private sector businesses to subsidize employee lifestyles beyond what their work is worth, allow the employer to pay a reasonable wage for the work (say $10/hour, again I'm pulling numbers out of the air here). Then, use the money you'd otherwise waste on a UBI and welfare to top up the amount paid by the employer to a reasonable living wage (say $15/hour). There you go....reasonable expenses for the employers, reasonable income for the employee, and you don't have the majority of your population sitting on theirs assess doing nothing and living pathetic wasted lives.
As far as getting people's incomes beyond that $15, anything the employer pays beyond $10, you decrease the subsidy by half. If the employer pays $12/hours, decrease the subsidy to $4 and the person makes $16. If the employer pays $18, the worker takes home $19. That way you don't have a situation where employers are unable to pay between $10 and $15 and giving the person a $1/hour raise would cost the employer $6.
We can solve NP problems by converting them to very inefficient deterministic problems and using deterministic algorithms. An NP algorithm would solve it in a nondeterministic way.
Factoring a large number by dividing by every prime up to its square root is a deterministic algorithm even though factoring is an NP problem
When you talking about computing all possibilities in parallel, you totally misunderstand quantum mechanics, that is not how quantum physics works, and we don't know yet how it works. For example, under the Many-Worlds Interpretation what you said *sort of* makes sense. Under the Copenhagen Interpretation, it's nonsense. And all these interpretations are just abstractions for things nobody understands.
You're an idiot.
a) First both NASA and Russia originally used pencils. Pencils leave a lot of electrically conductive dust when you write which you don't want on a space ship in microgravity.
b) The Fisher company spent $1 million developing their zero gravity pen on their own. They had nothing to do with NASA, public money was not spent on the development. They created a pen that could write upside down, under water, in extreme hot or cold. And it was created to sell to the public at a profit.
Starting in 1968 both NASA and the Russian space agency started buying them for $2.39 (retail price was $3.98).
https://www.scientificamerican...
Read the post I was replying to to understand the context of what I said.
This is *not* going to lead to "Cumulative storage capacity of a datacenter has now the potential to grow enormously", which is the entire meaning of my previous post. There certainly will be uses for this product, but the higher density is not going to lead to higher capacity datacenters.
At 50 cents per gig, the flash is worth about $500,000 for this PB. Spinning platters are under 5 cents per gig. $50,000 for this PB.
For most datacenter storage purposes, the spinning platters are not a bottleneck. The new product is cool and will be very useful in a few specific applications, but it is not going to change much for datacenters. The flash SSD will also save power as well as space, but not enough to justify 10x the upfront cost. Maybe next generation.
Around 50 cents/gigabyte. So $500,000ish.
I built a crystal radio when I was 6. It also required the user to wear a mono earpiece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I guess my 6 year old self was smarter than the researchers they have at the University of Washington.
Duracell is the only brand I won't buy. They always leak. I had a table ruined because the duracell batteries in the clock on the table leaked so badly (and the clock was still running). Maglite, xbox controllers, digital scales...everything I own that's ever touched a duracell has corrosion on it. And they don't honor their warranty at all for the past 5 years. They can't since they'd be bankrupt replacing all the things they've ruined. And if you don't believe me, google it. It's just duracell.
New codecs like H.265 and VP9 need 5x the servers costs because of their complexity. Currently, AV1 needs over 20x the server costs.
You encode the file once (which may well take 5 or 20 times the processor power) and upload to the server which will then save bandwidth and storage costs because of the smaller file size.
Except the bloat kills reliability and speed. And that kills functionality
All software so so buggy these days it's amazing anything works at all. But it's so easy to push parches, who cares about getting it right the first (or twenty-first) time?
Look past the first link on google. It's wrong.
Win 95 came on 13 1.68 MB DMF floppies. DMF was a special format giving you 21 sectors per track (maybe that's where the 21 came from). It would have been 15 1.44 MB floppies, and DMF was much harder to copy, at least at first.
Also, you think the simplistic little facebook App is worth 20 times the space of all of windows 95?
40 megapixels don't mean anything. You have to look at the resolving capability of the lens. You need a much better quality lens for a smaller sensor because you're focusing on a smaller area. Do you think your partner's Nokia lens beats a mid-range DSLR lens?
Then when you crop, you're taking an even smaller segment of the original image cast by the lens. When I crop or zoom my DSLR images, I have a razor sharp image which gets pixelated as I zoom. When you do the same on a point and shoot or any cell phone, it gets fuzzy and blurry long before it gets to pixels.
Or how about code for 90% of the slashdot reader base doesn't give a damn about Trump and there American wingnuts on both sides because either we're outside the US or live in the US and have better things to do than beat dead horses. This is news for nerds, not fapping for political pundit wannabes.
I took a college program in applied electromagnetics in Toronto Canada meant for people who already have an undergraduate degree in EE (mine is from UWaterloo). There was one other Canadian in my class, a Russian, and the rest were all from India. The instructors were all fresh off the boat from India as well.
The Indian students did not understand the most basic bit of theory, they could not count to 8 in binary. The teachers were the worst racist scum I have ever encountered. They made fun of the Canadians constantly, the way we run our businesses, the way we drive, the way we shop, everything. They also had the Indian students convinced that the teachers would personally deport them from Canada if they acted out.
The course material was the most basic stuff from first year undergrad except rather than teaching theory so you understand what you're doing, it's just rote memorization of equations. No wonder the students had no clue what any of the material actually meant.
No point arguing with a troll. You know exactly how this is Apple and if you want to play stupid, go play with yourself.
The point is that for Apple to spend $7 billion building the factory, they will get handed $14 billion from the government. Huge net loss for america and plenty more jobs could have been created with $14 billion.
And so trump gets his kickback not from a normal construction project but for handing apple $14 billion in tax money that would be better spent elsewhere.
And in more hushed news, Apple gets a $14 billion tax break to repatriate $50 billion from their offshore stash.
And in even later and more hushed news, Trumps companies get the contracts to build the $7 billion factory.