What you have described has been discovered by the rest of the world a few years ago. You can rent a room with good audio/visual equipment, go in there with a few good friends, and make as much or as little noise. This is very popular in Asia, since most homes are no where big enough for a gathering of friends, let alone the A/V equipment. However, the reality is, if you are getting together with friends, who wants to just sit there quietly?
What is really scary is all the posts stating this is a great idea.
>>Yeah, I could have done without seeing this story.
>>
>>The fate of the crew was just awful.
>>
>>Being gratitously reminded of it is not appreciated.
The Genocide was Awful. So many Jews died
The rape of Nanjing was Awful. So many Chinese were killed.
The Bombing of Hiroshima was awful.
Please don't mention them or print stories about them. We don't need to be reminded of them, or learn from them, to prevent repeating of our earlier mistakes.
People, try to think back to your high school physics.
Polar ice melting will NOT change sea level anywhere. No beachfront property in Sacramento. No flooding of tiny Pacific islands.
The ice is currently Floating in WATER! And since ice is lighter than water, when they melt, they will take up less space before in the ocean. Some of the Pacific islands may get bigger (someone may even notice it).
Melting in the Antarctic or on Greenland is different, since those are ice on land right now. But melting of ice in Arctic should make little difference in Sea Level.
US is 9.1 million sq km. China is 9.5 million sq km. Russia is 17 million sq km. If you go by barrels per sq km, using your logic, US populaiton still uses 4-5 times mroe than their "Fair Share".
Because you choose to live farther apart entitles you to use more Oil and pollute more? I thought geeks actually made logical senses.... And someone modded you up????
What exactly is your fair share? US burns 20 millions barrels of oil a day. China, with 4-5 times of US population, burns about 1/4 of the amount. So to use to "your fair share", you need to cut back by 90%, and not buy a high priced social statement on 4 wheels. And that is compared to the Chinese. If you compare that with someone in Congo, you need to go a lot lower....
You can produce less pollution by getting a small diesel car that gets same or better gas mileage.
So yes, it is a social statement, and pretty much a fad. If you really want to do all those things, ride a bike or a bus.
Who are the "People" you are referring to? Has there been a vote to all countries in the world? Or are you talking about "People who can afford to care?"
If you go to any third world country, and asks them if they can do without electricity or transportation in the name of Global Warming, guess what their answer would be? There is a reason why Kyoto excluded developing countries.
Why would that cost be decreased? Can doctors and hospitals bill the government whatever they want? The same work still needs to be done, but instead of private companies with a profit motive, you have civil service folks doing the work. Guess which one is more effective in keeping the cost contained?
The universal Healthcare in UK is the biggest business in UK, bar none.
In a small database application, used by, let say, 500 users a month. There can easily be hundreds of thousands of records. Come end of month, you need to find 50 records out of 100,000 that meets certain criteria. How are you going to get that out of the XML text files? Read all 100,000 and then parse it?
The fact that there may be 100000 text files out on disk should be causing all sort of alarms to go off.
Thousands of parents will be rushing out and getting these supplemets, trying to "help" their unborn children.
10 years from now, a crime wave is going to hit. A bunch of Super intelligent, yet hyperactive and ruthless 9 year olds, with ultra fast reflexes and photographic memory, but total lack of self-control and morals, begins their master plan of taking over the world.
Hey, this may be an interesting Movie plot....
People, I recommend against fooling with the brain until we actually know what we're doing. But Parents are insane anyway (looking into a mirror.)
And pray that you don't get a dream job offer from a company that does pre-employment drug testing.
Write a good cover letter, have a couple people proof read your resume, drink a beer to relax, sure.
As for the weed part, you can smoke as much as you want after you're retired.
Ever took an Early 90's software and run it on today's machine? The software back then was just as functional, runs screamingly fast on low end machines today, and ran in 1MB.
The fact your browser takes 33MB to run is a problem. Every software wants to include the kitchen sink, that's a problem.
Maybe if we have less abstraction layers, less dynamic invocations, less runtime discovery, and more focus on building something that works, we really would not need 4GB of RAM. Maybe, just maybe, the programs will run faster as well.
Ok, so the scripts caught an attempt to install a back door. Everybody jumps up and down and sings the praise of the mighty Open Source Movement.
What if a backdoor was installed last week, or last month, but was not caught?
The fact that this was possible once, should really make people think about the possibility of it happened ALREADY, and determine if it is necessary to hunt through the code for a systematic review.
Let's say that $0.15/KWh is the target price for power, and 1/3 of the cost goes to satellite replacement, and each satellite generates 2GW. If the satellite operates for 15 years, then the satellite will generate total revenue of $39.5 billion, and we surely can spend $13 billion to build and launch a new one. Even assuming the satellite is operational 80% of the time, that leaves us over $10 billion for a new satellite.
So, Let it COOK!
Have you done the math how much land would be covered to replace 1 1000 MW Nuclear Power Plant? The best Solar technology today would need $5 billion dollar investment in Solar panels alone to generate 1000MW, and covers about 10 Sq miles. That is 10 square miles that has 100% Sun exposure 365 days a year.
For California alone, to meet peak demands in the summer, we would need to build 45 of these. That's 450 sq miles of your Desert covered up with solar panels, and we better hope that we get good sun there all the time, or else, the state goes dark.
In the winter, when we don't get as much sun shine, the solar panels will operate at reduced efficiency. Reducing peak power available.
Of course, now what do we do at night? I don't believe anyone has gone and figured out how to supply 15,000MW using lead acid batteries, for up to 14 hours a day. Talk about environment pollution and disaster!
We've harvested as much Hydro power available here in CA without damming up Yosemite Valley. And the need of the salmons is beginning to outweigh the needs of the people.
Wind power requires... WIND! Sites that has enough wind aren't all that common, and people are very upset about Turbine generators because
1. They kill birds.
2. They are an eyesore to some, especially people with beach properties.
One energy source that we should be tapping from, for LONG TERM, is Solar Satellites. A 5 Sq Km Solar Panel in GeoSync orbit can beam down power to a receiver station, and putting up 10-12 of those will take care of the energy needs for the forseeable future.
You should be able to hire 6-10 software engineers for the price of one engineer here. , you should be able to reduce your cost at least by 80%! A 66% savings means you're being ripped off! If it's costing 2x as much, that means you should be getting this thing in 1/20th of the time!
Seriously though, we're just at the beginning, and anecdotal evidence isn't going to hold back the tide. Companies will see the math I presented, and move towards it. Even if they only see a 20% saving, they will move more jobs over there. 20% is 20%.
This isn't going to stop until the cost of living raises enough in India or China to close to US level. At which point, we may recover. But, that assumes we will have enough talent left to recover...
The software industry we know in this country will soon go the way of the dodo bird. Just like Textile, Steel, any sort of plastic manufacturing....
As more companies move their development offshore, there will be less jobs for entry level developers. Well, no entry level jobs means that in about 5 years, there will be no senior level developers in this country. Heck, all the main players thinks 5 years experiences makes a senior engineer, right?
Since there aren't sufficient senior engineers here, it's time to rely on all foreign talent for the devleopment. Besides, the architect really needs to communicate with his team anyway, and in the same timezone. Soon, all development jobs are offshore.
There will still be IT or admin jobs here, as those requires some warm bodies in the building. But true development will be all gone.
Oh, the small consulting companies, the few experts with highly technical domain knowledges, they will have a paycheck. But the developer that can jump in anywhere and help out would not have a place. There will be no big software companies that has a big building with whiteboard walls. This is already becoming true, as more and more jobs openings expect exact fit in terms of domain knowledge.
It's a matter of time before a big chunk of development for CA, Oracle, and Microsoft and others like them will be off shore. I suspect Microsoft won't shrink much, but the growth wouldn't be here anymore.
I have a 40 year old, very senior engineering fried working on his Law degree. Most of us will need to think like him soon. If you read this Mike T., keep going!
I just finished attending a Molecular Biology Training class, and I couldn't help drawing parallels between Open Source and the public Research that is on-going, such as the Human Genome Project.
Like open source software, public research labs publish the data they found, such as mouse or yeast genome, into the public domain (Humor me, I know that Open Source is not public domain, but it's darn close in terms of availability and cost). In addition, when a lab creates a new genomic library, they are supposed to make it available to anyone who asks. Sounds a lot like Open Source.
However, privately funded research usually do not have such policy, and use patents, trade secrets, and Copyrights to protect the IP. This has some effect in slowly down advancement in science in many ways. Such research also lead to imporant, and profitable advances for the companies involved.
But, due to limited public funding, not all worthwhile projects are funded in a timely fashion. A grant request to the NIH may take years before approved. A private company, seizing an oppertunity, may choose to invest and jump start a new field of research.
It seems that both models can co exist, and maybe it's time to have a publicly funded, or even an industry funded, organization, the supports Open Source development. The group should focus on open standards, common tools and platforms, and anything else someone can make a good case for. Something that will advance our knowledge, and make life easier. Something that we all cooperate on, rather than having blackmails or mighty pissing contests.
Maybe we should begin to treat Computer Science like Science, and really advance it methodically, rather than "My code is faster than your code..."
Slashdot Mirror
And ask for a DS Lite with 2 bigger screens.
In related news, Boeing and Airbus both announced the immediate availability of "Cone Of Silence" option on all airplanes.
Personal Rapid Transit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transi t
They will superimpose the DNA image on current human DNA, and find the following message:
"We apologize for all the inconveniences"
What you have described has been discovered by the rest of the world a few years ago. You can rent a room with good audio/visual equipment, go in there with a few good friends, and make as much or as little noise. This is very popular in Asia, since most homes are no where big enough for a gathering of friends, let alone the A/V equipment. However, the reality is, if you are getting together with friends, who wants to just sit there quietly?
What is really scary is all the posts stating this is a great idea.
>>Yeah, I could have done without seeing this story.
>>
>>The fate of the crew was just awful.
>>
>>Being gratitously reminded of it is not appreciated.
The Genocide was Awful. So many Jews died
The rape of Nanjing was Awful. So many Chinese were killed.
The Bombing of Hiroshima was awful.
Please don't mention them or print stories about them. We don't need to be reminded of them, or learn from them, to prevent repeating of our earlier mistakes.
That melting of Arctic is now OK, since Europe is going to Freeze?
I mean, Wow, we can't even feed the people on the ISS without the Russians.
People, try to think back to your high school physics.
Polar ice melting will NOT change sea level anywhere. No beachfront property in Sacramento. No flooding of tiny Pacific islands.
The ice is currently Floating in WATER! And since ice is lighter than water, when they melt, they will take up less space before in the ocean. Some of the Pacific islands may get bigger (someone may even notice it).
Melting in the Antarctic or on Greenland is different, since those are ice on land right now. But melting of ice in Arctic should make little difference in Sea Level.
US is 9.1 million sq km. China is 9.5 million sq km. Russia is 17 million sq km. If you go by barrels per sq km, using your logic, US populaiton still uses 4-5 times mroe than their "Fair Share".
Because you choose to live farther apart entitles you to use more Oil and pollute more? I thought geeks actually made logical senses.... And someone modded you up????
What exactly is your fair share? US burns 20 millions barrels of oil a day. China, with 4-5 times of US population, burns about 1/4 of the amount. So to use to "your fair share", you need to cut back by 90%, and not buy a high priced social statement on 4 wheels. And that is compared to the Chinese. If you compare that with someone in Congo, you need to go a lot lower....
You can produce less pollution by getting a small diesel car that gets same or better gas mileage.
So yes, it is a social statement, and pretty much a fad. If you really want to do all those things, ride a bike or a bus.
Who are the "People" you are referring to? Has there been a vote to all countries in the world? Or are you talking about "People who can afford to care?" If you go to any third world country, and asks them if they can do without electricity or transportation in the name of Global Warming, guess what their answer would be? There is a reason why Kyoto excluded developing countries.
So now you believe the White house? Would love to have some statistics on how often our presidnets have been wrong....
Why would that cost be decreased? Can doctors and hospitals bill the government whatever they want? The same work still needs to be done, but instead of private companies with a profit motive, you have civil service folks doing the work. Guess which one is more effective in keeping the cost contained? The universal Healthcare in UK is the biggest business in UK, bar none.
You are missing something.... Big...
In a small database application, used by, let say, 500 users a month. There can easily be hundreds of thousands of records. Come end of month, you need to find 50 records out of 100,000 that meets certain criteria. How are you going to get that out of the XML text files? Read all 100,000 and then parse it?
The fact that there may be 100000 text files out on disk should be causing all sort of alarms to go off.
I'm sure you will find someone to love you in this world.
Thousands of parents will be rushing out and getting these supplemets, trying to "help" their unborn children.
10 years from now, a crime wave is going to hit. A bunch of Super intelligent, yet hyperactive and ruthless 9 year olds, with ultra fast reflexes and photographic memory, but total lack of self-control and morals, begins their master plan of taking over the world.
Hey, this may be an interesting Movie plot....
People, I recommend against fooling with the brain until we actually know what we're doing. But Parents are insane anyway (looking into a mirror.)
And pray that you don't get a dream job offer from a company that does pre-employment drug testing. Write a good cover letter, have a couple people proof read your resume, drink a beer to relax, sure. As for the weed part, you can smoke as much as you want after you're retired.
Ever took an Early 90's software and run it on today's machine? The software back then was just as functional, runs screamingly fast on low end machines today, and ran in 1MB.
The fact your browser takes 33MB to run is a problem. Every software wants to include the kitchen sink, that's a problem.
Maybe if we have less abstraction layers, less dynamic invocations, less runtime discovery, and more focus on building something that works, we really would not need 4GB of RAM. Maybe, just maybe, the programs will run faster as well.
Ok, so the scripts caught an attempt to install a back door. Everybody jumps up and down and sings the praise of the mighty Open Source Movement.
What if a backdoor was installed last week, or last month, but was not caught?
The fact that this was possible once, should really make people think about the possibility of it happened ALREADY, and determine if it is necessary to hunt through the code for a systematic review.
Instead, all we get is Microsoft Bashing...
Ugh
Let's say that $0.15/KWh is the target price for power, and 1/3 of the cost goes to satellite replacement, and each satellite generates 2GW. If the satellite operates for 15 years, then the satellite will generate total revenue of $39.5 billion, and we surely can spend $13 billion to build and launch a new one. Even assuming the satellite is operational 80% of the time, that leaves us over $10 billion for a new satellite.
So, Let it COOK!
Have you done the math how much land would be covered to replace 1 1000 MW Nuclear Power Plant? The best Solar technology today would need $5 billion dollar investment in Solar panels alone to generate 1000MW, and covers about 10 Sq miles. That is 10 square miles that has 100% Sun exposure 365 days a year.
For California alone, to meet peak demands in the summer, we would need to build 45 of these. That's 450 sq miles of your Desert covered up with solar panels, and we better hope that we get good sun there all the time, or else, the state goes dark.
In the winter, when we don't get as much sun shine, the solar panels will operate at reduced efficiency. Reducing peak power available.
Of course, now what do we do at night? I don't believe anyone has gone and figured out how to supply 15,000MW using lead acid batteries, for up to 14 hours a day. Talk about environment pollution and disaster!
We've harvested as much Hydro power available here in CA without damming up Yosemite Valley. And the need of the salmons is beginning to outweigh the needs of the people.
Wind power requires... WIND! Sites that has enough wind aren't all that common, and people are very upset about Turbine generators because
1. They kill birds.
2. They are an eyesore to some, especially people with beach properties.
One energy source that we should be tapping from, for LONG TERM, is Solar Satellites. A 5 Sq Km Solar Panel in GeoSync orbit can beam down power to a receiver station, and putting up 10-12 of those will take care of the energy needs for the forseeable future.
1/3? You are paying too much!
You should be able to hire 6-10 software engineers for the price of one engineer here. , you should be able to reduce your cost at least by 80%! A 66% savings means you're being ripped off! If it's costing 2x as much, that means you should be getting this thing in 1/20th of the time!
Seriously though, we're just at the beginning, and anecdotal evidence isn't going to hold back the tide. Companies will see the math I presented, and move towards it. Even if they only see a 20% saving, they will move more jobs over there. 20% is 20%.
This isn't going to stop until the cost of living raises enough in India or China to close to US level. At which point, we may recover. But, that assumes we will have enough talent left to recover...
The software industry we know in this country will soon go the way of the dodo bird. Just like Textile, Steel, any sort of plastic manufacturing.... As more companies move their development offshore, there will be less jobs for entry level developers. Well, no entry level jobs means that in about 5 years, there will be no senior level developers in this country. Heck, all the main players thinks 5 years experiences makes a senior engineer, right? Since there aren't sufficient senior engineers here, it's time to rely on all foreign talent for the devleopment. Besides, the architect really needs to communicate with his team anyway, and in the same timezone. Soon, all development jobs are offshore. There will still be IT or admin jobs here, as those requires some warm bodies in the building. But true development will be all gone. Oh, the small consulting companies, the few experts with highly technical domain knowledges, they will have a paycheck. But the developer that can jump in anywhere and help out would not have a place. There will be no big software companies that has a big building with whiteboard walls. This is already becoming true, as more and more jobs openings expect exact fit in terms of domain knowledge. It's a matter of time before a big chunk of development for CA, Oracle, and Microsoft and others like them will be off shore. I suspect Microsoft won't shrink much, but the growth wouldn't be here anymore. I have a 40 year old, very senior engineering fried working on his Law degree. Most of us will need to think like him soon. If you read this Mike T., keep going!
I just finished attending a Molecular Biology Training class, and I couldn't help drawing parallels between Open Source and the public Research that is on-going, such as the Human Genome Project.
Like open source software, public research labs publish the data they found, such as mouse or yeast genome, into the public domain (Humor me, I know that Open Source is not public domain, but it's darn close in terms of availability and cost). In addition, when a lab creates a new genomic library, they are supposed to make it available to anyone who asks. Sounds a lot like Open Source.
However, privately funded research usually do not have such policy, and use patents, trade secrets, and Copyrights to protect the IP. This has some effect in slowly down advancement in science in many ways. Such research also lead to imporant, and profitable advances for the companies involved.
But, due to limited public funding, not all worthwhile projects are funded in a timely fashion. A grant request to the NIH may take years before approved. A private company, seizing an oppertunity, may choose to invest and jump start a new field of research.
It seems that both models can co exist, and maybe it's time to have a publicly funded, or even an industry funded, organization, the supports Open Source development. The group should focus on open standards, common tools and platforms, and anything else someone can make a good case for. Something that will advance our knowledge, and make life easier. Something that we all cooperate on, rather than having blackmails or mighty pissing contests.
Maybe we should begin to treat Computer Science like Science, and really advance it methodically, rather than "My code is faster than your code..."