As opposed to a central corporate string-pulling government economy...
...we are SO lucky the newly elected government fixed the corporate string-pulling of government before some terrible disaster or environmental catastrophe took place!
You're missing the point, for many apps you will have the option of either purchasing a full price version or running an ad supported version so you can have exactly that choice. There will of course be paid apps with ads included but those most likely will either be unpopular or will be imitated by apps with the either/or model.
Back when cable TV was first conceived, broadcast TV had ads, and cable came out with no ads, as a paid service.
And now, today, there are of course cable TV stations with ads, but... wait, what were we talking about before the commercial?
The part I found disturbing on the stemaid site was that they claimed you could have embryonic stem cells for $15,000, but autologous embryonic stem-cells for $80,000.
Yes, they said "autologous" and "embryonic" together. That, and the reference to the Rael book make me think there is something ethically aberrant going on here in terms of how they obtain said stem cells, and that they either don't realize about the Hayflick limit and Dolly the sheep's premature senesence, or they consider it acceptable risk or cost/benefit. It really makes me wonder what else they're into.
The water pressure at that depth is, and the depth makes doing something about it technically challenging.
But the oil pressure's not that immense.
It's a 21 inch pipe spewing 15,000 barrels a day. Given that an oil drum is roughly the diameter of the pipe (24 inches) by just under 3 feet long, that's 45,000 feet of pipe, or 9 miles a day, or a little more than a third of a mile an hour.
It's still a lot of oil that shouldn't be there, and it looks really impressive in the underwater video because of the way it suspends in the sea water, making it look larger, but the oil pressure's not what's getting in the way of capping things off.
All that said, I agree with you about the one-previous poster's suggestion. Wrapping what is effectively a reverse osmotic barrier around the thing is not going to stop the oil leaking out if there's a pressure differential.
The email contents are on the voice recording page link.
If someone sends you abusive email, and has a history of sending you email, so that you have no expectation he's going to stop any time soon, and the level of abuse in the email has been escalating, then a C&D is probably a pretty reasonable response from a public person like the AT&T CEO.
I'm not saying I like the change AT&T made to cap their data plans, rather than fix their network, any more than anyone else does, but between the two parties involved, the response from AT&T was a lot less rude than the email.
Biosphere2 gets an unfairly bad rap most times someone brings it up.
The primary difference in the current experiment vs. Biosphere2 is that Biosphere2 made a number of mistakes that these guys appear to have corrected. The number one mistake was the use of concrete, which can take decades to cure, and in so doing, consumes Oxygen from the atmosphere. Inside Biosphere2, this turned into very low Oxygen levels, and a need to replenish the Oxygen frequently. The other issue was pre-loading of supplies (good for a mission, bad for a colony).
They also had crew/staffing problems, like the crew ordering pizza and letting it in through the airlock, in violation of the experimental protocols.
That said, Biosphere2 would be a good model for a moon colony, and not so good a model for a Mars mission, given that they dealt with a number of the issues that would have to be dealt with regarding expansion and contraction of the interior atmosphere, and that they depended on exterior sunlight (the reason they built outside of Tucson, AZ was because it has more sunlit days than almost any place on Earth). Neither of these would be relevant to a Mars mission.
The time to get someone interested in coding was when it was possible for them to sit down with a computer and a copy of Compute! magazine, type in a game program source code, and then play the resulting game.
Without the tie in between coding (work) and the reward (gaming), the coding doesn't become fun, unless you are already bent in that direction.
That level of game, where you are pushing 8 bit pixels around, is, frankly, no longer interesting. At the time, however, it was state-of-the-art, and you could get your head around it easily because it didn't require a lot of abstract complexity to modify the programs. In fact, you usually typo'ed typing in the program, and it didn't do what you expected, so you learned to compare the source with what you had put in the machine, and got some debugging skills out of it and a working game as the reward. Constant exposure to this type of thing, and you can't help but absorb some of the syntax and code flow understanding necessary to take the next step and make the bad buy look different than they way the original programmer intended. Or change the game logic to the point that the game play is different, or you're getting huge scores compared to your friends because you did the right button/joystick sequence early in the game and activated the "cheat mode" you built into it.
Those days are pretty much gone. There is a very large divide between a small amount of ability and an interesting result, because the state-of-the-art has moved on, and there's now a big divide.
I find it really ironic that the most valuable programmers you can hire these days pretty much come from places where their idea of interesting is one generation back because the hardware and software they had to play with is one generation back, and they have a decade difference between our "old school" and theirs.
I expect they are now regretting that the barriers they put in place to prevent IE6 being displaced by Firefox, Opera, and other browsers is now effective at preventing IE6 from being displaced by another browser from themselves.
I'm easily findable, but I'd suggest doing an internship this year. We generally make offers to interns who impress us. NB: Apple internships are paid, and there's a living stipend on top of that.
Need someone to work on the Safari app on the iPhone? I imagine a new CS grad that's slightly above average could fit the bill.
Not really. Safari on the iPhone is memory constrained, and can't tolerate memory leaks or other issues; there's very little headroom there. It's also really performance sensitive, since the code efficiency is directly proportional to battery life. If you are working on something that's baseline software on the iPhone, it has tighter requirements than third party applications.
That said, there are a number of universities that we've loaned employees as faculty to teach iPhone/iPad development; those people might be more likely to get a job working on something like that, but it's generally not an entry level position (all of the position postings, with the exception of the Pittsburgh office, that I've seen require 2+ years of experience, but admittedly, I didn't look at all 368 of the open req's for the iPhone).
There's a kernel position that doesn't require experience, if you have a masters: position #4636787.
We also have internships in various areas, which would give you a foot in the door: position #4727175 (covers a wide range of internships, including iPhone and other CoreOS positions).
Why oh why do people use their real names on this Net we call Inter? It just isn't worth the potential aggravation.
Why people use their real names:
Section 4.1 of Facebook terms and conditions:
Registration and Account Security
Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account: You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
I was torn between modding this up and commenting.
I picked commenting.
This statement:
Everyone wants to work on the latest and greatest stuff, no one wants to maintain or even release patches.
is very, very true. We (Apple) have a hard time getting applicants who want to do anything other than work on the next iPhone/iPad/whatever. Mainline kernel people are difficult to hire, even though the same kernel is being used on the iDevices as is being used on the regular Macs. Everyone wants to work on the new sexy. For some positions, that works, but for most of them, you have to prove yourself elsewhere before you get your shot.
I think that, for the most part, we see the same thing in marketing for higher education (with the exception of one track, one of the universities I went to has become a diploma mill for Flash game programmers; sadly, I would not hire recent graduates from there unless they have an experience track record). There are video game classes at most universities, but while it might be sexy, you are most likely not going to be getting a job doing video games, 3D modeling for video games, or anything video game related, really, unless you get together with some friends and start your own company, and even then it's a 1 out of 100 chance of staying in business.
I don't really know how to address this, except by the people who think they are going to be the next great video game designer remaining unemployed.
I have to agree with your position. None of the requirements seem egregious or erroneous, even if I don't personally agree with the positions taken, they are all on topics which are legitimately debatable.
I believe the thinking of the board was that the perceived current bias in textbooks needed to be addressed. This is particularly evident from them specifying what shall be included, and not specifying any exclusions. They obviously wanted specific things included, and didn't bother specifying the inclusion of the other point of view because they felt that it would be included there anyway.
(1) Globalism is a real issue; many of the people at the Brookings Institute and the Hoover Institute see globalization as the single most important driving factor in increased terrorism, as "if you don't like it here, go some place else!" doesn't work very well if there's isn't some place else.
(2) Long term entitlements are something which should be considered carefully, in light of the current example of what Germany and France propping up Greece's state entitlements is currently doing to the economy of the European Union.
(3) Separation of church and state is an issue, and has been ever since churches and schools were forced by court decisions to stop sharing resources, such as buildings, particularly in rural states where population density is drastically lower. It continues to be each time someone like Michael Newdow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow files a new lawsuit against the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments on courthouses, or prayers at the opening of a session of Congress.
(4) There is no "instead" here; again, the intent appears to be to include contrasting opinion, not replace one opinion with another.
(5) Joseph McCarthy's crusade via the H.U.A.C. is generally acknowledged as a bad thing, even by the most right-wing people. But it's also correct to acknowledge that it was reactionary, and didn't originate from one man's mental instability.
(6) I'll grant #6; it seems like a case of successful lobbying for a particular composer. Although there is a lot of cultural baggage and context tied up in "Old Man River" which could help to explain certain aspects of U.S. society, it's not a necessary Schelling point to explain these things.
(7) Imperialism implies "British Empire"-like colonialism, with the taking and intention of permanence in holding of territory. This is probably a semantic argument not worth fighting over.
(8) "The conservative resurgence" in the 1980's and 1990's largely characterizes those decades, in the same way that the anti-war movements and the civil rights movements characterize the decades before them. Unless there's no intention to talk about those decades, I don't think it's possible to escape talking about the underpinning social events.
(9) As one of only two presidents to have ever been impeached, it's probably worth noting Bill Clinton's impeachment. While proceedings were dropped, I'd keep Nixon in the list (and they do).
(10) "Explain how Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict", I think, refers more to the refusal of diplomatic recognition leading to ongoing conflict. You could easily replace this with something like "Explain how Western rejection of the State of Myanmar has led to ongoing conflict", and teach the same lesson, although with probably more controversy.
The fact that Newsweek, a supposed bastion of balanced reporting, takes such a strong side on these issues over which there is reasonable disagreement with the current doctrinal position in most textbooks indicates that the requirement to include opposing points of view is not only reasonable, it's justified.
Restrict access to the roof? Just saying... if you can't get access to get out of the building up high, you have a hard time jumping from the window you can't get out or from the roof you can't get to.
I'm positive Jennifer Meyers predates them by a couple of years. She's been using it since (at least) the early 1990's. From the article, their earliest use date is 1995.
So, when Obama proposed to increase NASA's budget, what social injustice is he intending to redress?
FWIW: I believe it's environmentalism...
He's basically retasking NASA with a lot of work for which NOAA is already responsible and already funded to do. That's what the funding is earmarked for, not for projects that NASA, in its role as the national aeronautics and space administration, have which correspond to its intended mission mandate.
So basically the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which countries we now have a huge moral obligation to fix things, have cost us trillions of dollars, and continue to cost u, that we haven't really paid for yet, and can't afford to pay for.
I'm pretty sure it was John Candy who said, in 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles', "I've never seen a man helped up by hist testicles before".
Given the kind of "help" we've given them so far, they would probably be better off without our "help" than with it.
If you get a nail in a wooden tire......it just holds it together better. If you get a nail in an inflated rubber tire, it's time to buy a new tire. Surely, new = better...
The FCC said the technology cannot be used on a particular movie once it is out on DVD or Blu-Ray, or after 90 days from the time it is first used on that movie, whichever comes first.
In related news... the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term.
I'm sure they won't enable the technology to do this, and then change the terms out from under us once the technological means are present.
Slashdot Mirror
"does not yet support my older 2.4 Linux servers"
So upgrade your servers to a supported release instead?
-- Terry
Thank God!
As opposed to a central corporate string-pulling government economy...
...we are SO lucky the newly elected government fixed the corporate string-pulling of government before some terrible disaster or environmental catastrophe took place!
-- Terry
You're missing the point, for many apps you will have the option of either purchasing a full price version or running an ad supported version so you can have exactly that choice. There will of course be paid apps with ads included but those most likely will either be unpopular or will be imitated by apps with the either/or model.
Back when cable TV was first conceived, broadcast TV had ads, and cable came out with no ads, as a paid service.
And now, today, there are of course cable TV stations with ads, but... wait, what were we talking about before the commercial?
-- Terry
A Gizmodo editor? ...just saying...
-- Terry
The part I found disturbing on the stemaid site was that they claimed you could have embryonic stem cells for $15,000, but autologous embryonic stem-cells for $80,000.
Yes, they said "autologous" and "embryonic" together. That, and the reference to the Rael book make me think there is something ethically aberrant going on here in terms of how they obtain said stem cells, and that they either don't realize about the Hayflick limit and Dolly the sheep's premature senesence, or they consider it acceptable risk or cost/benefit. It really makes me wonder what else they're into.
-- Terry
It's 2200 PSI; a big block of cement won't work ...it'll just seep out around the edges.
-- Terry
The water pressure at that depth is, and the depth makes doing something about it technically challenging.
But the oil pressure's not that immense.
It's a 21 inch pipe spewing 15,000 barrels a day. Given that an oil drum is roughly the diameter of the pipe (24 inches) by just under 3 feet long, that's 45,000 feet of pipe, or 9 miles a day, or a little more than a third of a mile an hour.
It's still a lot of oil that shouldn't be there, and it looks really impressive in the underwater video because of the way it suspends in the sea water, making it look larger, but the oil pressure's not what's getting in the way of capping things off.
All that said, I agree with you about the one-previous poster's suggestion. Wrapping what is effectively a reverse osmotic barrier around the thing is not going to stop the oil leaking out if there's a pressure differential.
-- Terry
Did you read his email? It was pretty abusive.
The email contents are on the voice recording page link.
If someone sends you abusive email, and has a history of sending you email, so that you have no expectation he's going to stop any time soon, and the level of abuse in the email has been escalating, then a C&D is probably a pretty reasonable response from a public person like the AT&T CEO.
I'm not saying I like the change AT&T made to cap their data plans, rather than fix their network, any more than anyone else does, but between the two parties involved, the response from AT&T was a lot less rude than the email.
-- Terry
Biosphere2 gets an unfairly bad rap most times someone brings it up.
The primary difference in the current experiment vs. Biosphere2 is that Biosphere2 made a number of mistakes that these guys appear to have corrected. The number one mistake was the use of concrete, which can take decades to cure, and in so doing, consumes Oxygen from the atmosphere. Inside Biosphere2, this turned into very low Oxygen levels, and a need to replenish the Oxygen frequently. The other issue was pre-loading of supplies (good for a mission, bad for a colony).
They also had crew/staffing problems, like the crew ordering pizza and letting it in through the airlock, in violation of the experimental protocols.
That said, Biosphere2 would be a good model for a moon colony, and not so good a model for a Mars mission, given that they dealt with a number of the issues that would have to be dealt with regarding expansion and contraction of the interior atmosphere, and that they depended on exterior sunlight (the reason they built outside of Tucson, AZ was because it has more sunlit days than almost any place on Earth). Neither of these would be relevant to a Mars mission.
-- Terry
It's way too late.
The time to get someone interested in coding was when it was possible for them to sit down with a computer and a copy of Compute! magazine, type in a game program source code, and then play the resulting game.
Without the tie in between coding (work) and the reward (gaming), the coding doesn't become fun, unless you are already bent in that direction.
That level of game, where you are pushing 8 bit pixels around, is, frankly, no longer interesting. At the time, however, it was state-of-the-art, and you could get your head around it easily because it didn't require a lot of abstract complexity to modify the programs. In fact, you usually typo'ed typing in the program, and it didn't do what you expected, so you learned to compare the source with what you had put in the machine, and got some debugging skills out of it and a working game as the reward. Constant exposure to this type of thing, and you can't help but absorb some of the syntax and code flow understanding necessary to take the next step and make the bad buy look different than they way the original programmer intended. Or change the game logic to the point that the game play is different, or you're getting huge scores compared to your friends because you did the right button/joystick sequence early in the game and activated the "cheat mode" you built into it.
Those days are pretty much gone. There is a very large divide between a small amount of ability and an interesting result, because the state-of-the-art has moved on, and there's now a big divide.
I find it really ironic that the most valuable programmers you can hire these days pretty much come from places where their idea of interesting is one generation back because the hardware and software they had to play with is one generation back, and they have a decade difference between our "old school" and theirs.
-- Terry
Karma is a bitch...
I expect they are now regretting that the barriers they put in place to prevent IE6 being displaced by Firefox, Opera, and other browsers is now effective at preventing IE6 from being displaced by another browser from themselves.
-- Terry
Not a record: X-43A hit Mach 9.6 in 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4018117.stm
Quoting Randy Vorland on the X-43A test flight:
I think it's easier than people think it is. We can really do this stuff. I don't mean to make it sound too easy, but it's definitely doable.
-- Terry
I'm easily findable, but I'd suggest doing an internship this year. We generally make offers to interns who impress us. NB: Apple internships are paid, and there's a living stipend on top of that.
http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/students.html
(This also shows the currently open new grad jobs).
-- Terry
Need someone to work on the Safari app on the iPhone? I imagine a new CS grad that's slightly above average could fit the bill.
Not really. Safari on the iPhone is memory constrained, and can't tolerate memory leaks or other issues; there's very little headroom there. It's also really performance sensitive, since the code efficiency is directly proportional to battery life. If you are working on something that's baseline software on the iPhone, it has tighter requirements than third party applications.
That said, there are a number of universities that we've loaned employees as faculty to teach iPhone/iPad development; those people might be more likely to get a job working on something like that, but it's generally not an entry level position (all of the position postings, with the exception of the Pittsburgh office, that I've seen require 2+ years of experience, but admittedly, I didn't look at all 368 of the open req's for the iPhone).
There's a kernel position that doesn't require experience, if you have a masters: position #4636787.
We also have internships in various areas, which would give you a foot in the door: position #4727175 (covers a wide range of internships, including iPhone and other CoreOS positions).
-- Terry
Why oh why do people use their real names on this Net we call Inter? It just isn't worth the potential aggravation.
Why people use their real names:
Section 4.1 of Facebook terms and conditions:
-- Terry
I would rather not... ...have a bully who has "channeled his aggression into martial arts", and ended up still a bully.
-- Terry
I was torn between modding this up and commenting.
I picked commenting.
This statement:
Everyone wants to work on the latest and greatest stuff, no one wants to maintain or even release patches.
is very, very true. We (Apple) have a hard time getting applicants who want to do anything other than work on the next iPhone/iPad/whatever. Mainline kernel people are difficult to hire, even though the same kernel is being used on the iDevices as is being used on the regular Macs. Everyone wants to work on the new sexy. For some positions, that works, but for most of them, you have to prove yourself elsewhere before you get your shot.
I think that, for the most part, we see the same thing in marketing for higher education (with the exception of one track, one of the universities I went to has become a diploma mill for Flash game programmers; sadly, I would not hire recent graduates from there unless they have an experience track record). There are video game classes at most universities, but while it might be sexy, you are most likely not going to be getting a job doing video games, 3D modeling for video games, or anything video game related, really, unless you get together with some friends and start your own company, and even then it's a 1 out of 100 chance of staying in business.
I don't really know how to address this, except by the people who think they are going to be the next great video game designer remaining unemployed.
-- Terry
Not only reasonable, but justified...
I have to agree with your position. None of the requirements seem egregious or erroneous, even if I don't personally agree with the positions taken, they are all on topics which are legitimately debatable.
I believe the thinking of the board was that the perceived current bias in textbooks needed to be addressed. This is particularly evident from them specifying what shall be included, and not specifying any exclusions. They obviously wanted specific things included, and didn't bother specifying the inclusion of the other point of view because they felt that it would be included there anyway.
Responding point by point specifically to Newsweek's "10 silliest changes" http://www.newsweek.com/id/238322:
(1) Globalism is a real issue; many of the people at the Brookings Institute and the Hoover Institute see globalization as the single most important driving factor in increased terrorism, as "if you don't like it here, go some place else!" doesn't work very well if there's isn't some place else.
(2) Long term entitlements are something which should be considered carefully, in light of the current example of what Germany and France propping up Greece's state entitlements is currently doing to the economy of the European Union.
(3) Separation of church and state is an issue, and has been ever since churches and schools were forced by court decisions to stop sharing resources, such as buildings, particularly in rural states where population density is drastically lower. It continues to be each time someone like Michael Newdow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Newdow files a new lawsuit against the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments on courthouses, or prayers at the opening of a session of Congress.
(4) There is no "instead" here; again, the intent appears to be to include contrasting opinion, not replace one opinion with another.
(5) Joseph McCarthy's crusade via the H.U.A.C. is generally acknowledged as a bad thing, even by the most right-wing people. But it's also correct to acknowledge that it was reactionary, and didn't originate from one man's mental instability.
(6) I'll grant #6; it seems like a case of successful lobbying for a particular composer. Although there is a lot of cultural baggage and context tied up in "Old Man River" which could help to explain certain aspects of U.S. society, it's not a necessary Schelling point to explain these things.
(7) Imperialism implies "British Empire"-like colonialism, with the taking and intention of permanence in holding of territory. This is probably a semantic argument not worth fighting over.
(8) "The conservative resurgence" in the 1980's and 1990's largely characterizes those decades, in the same way that the anti-war movements and the civil rights movements characterize the decades before them. Unless there's no intention to talk about those decades, I don't think it's possible to escape talking about the underpinning social events.
(9) As one of only two presidents to have ever been impeached, it's probably worth noting Bill Clinton's impeachment. While proceedings were dropped, I'd keep Nixon in the list (and they do).
(10) "Explain how Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict", I think, refers more to the refusal of diplomatic recognition leading to ongoing conflict. You could easily replace this with something like "Explain how Western rejection of the State of Myanmar has led to ongoing conflict", and teach the same lesson, although with probably more controversy.
The fact that Newsweek, a supposed bastion of balanced reporting, takes such a strong side on these issues over which there is reasonable disagreement with the current doctrinal position in most textbooks indicates that the requirement to include opposing points of view is not only reasonable, it's justified.
-- Terry
Restrict access to the roof? Just saying... if you can't get access to get out of the building up high, you have a hard time jumping from the window you can't get out or from the roof you can't get to.
-- Terry
I'm positive Jennifer Meyers predates them by a couple of years. She's been using it since (at least) the early 1990's. From the article, their earliest use date is 1995.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdmyers
-- Terry
So, when Obama proposed to increase NASA's budget, what social injustice is he intending to redress?
FWIW: I believe it's environmentalism...
He's basically retasking NASA with a lot of work for which NOAA is already responsible and already funded to do. That's what the funding is earmarked for, not for projects that NASA, in its role as the national aeronautics and space administration, have which correspond to its intended mission mandate.
-- Terry
So basically the Bush wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which countries we now have a huge moral obligation to fix things, have cost us trillions of dollars, and continue to cost u, that we haven't really paid for yet, and can't afford to pay for.
I'm pretty sure it was John Candy who said, in 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles', "I've never seen a man helped up by hist testicles before".
Given the kind of "help" we've given them so far, they would probably be better off without our "help" than with it.
-- Terry
If you get a nail in a wooden tire... ...it just holds it together better. If you get a nail in an inflated rubber tire, it's time to buy a new tire. Surely, new = better...
-- Terry
The FCC said the technology cannot be used on a particular movie once it is out on DVD or Blu-Ray, or after 90 days from the time it is first used on that movie, whichever comes first.
In related news... the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term.
I'm sure they won't enable the technology to do this, and then change the terms out from under us once the technological means are present.
-- Terry
Disc shaped plastic cartridges?
You mean those DVD thingies?
-- Terry