The idea is that you could use a Brownian Ratchet within the context of a heated chip and nano-mechanical system to do work such as locally cooling the chip or charging capacitors... whatever... something useful (but exactly what we don't hear mentioned)... the article also doesn't mention it but they are probably talking about ratchets where the pawl assembly (T2 on the wikipedia picture) is small enough to enable energy to be extracted from the thermal gradient in accordance with the second law of thermal dynamics. This would effectively cool the chip by converting heat to nano-mechanical energy.
So these future chips are not just nano-electrical they are also nano-mechanical...
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It finds my old web page hosted on delphi.com. I wrote that HTML on an Apple IIgs in 1996 or so.
I found copies of my old code I had lost! C/C++! OpenGL! Hurray! Good gravy... my old site was ugly.
Wont this start an infinite cascade of similar statements?
And that's how we'll break the patent system. They'll get so caught up in recursive patents that they'll chew up all available resources in the US government eventually causing an out of memory error. The whole government will crash because there will be no space left for log files. The result will force a reboot of the US government.
Or you can get your MBA, become a C level executive, hopelessly **** up a company, and then get a large compensation package for leaving.
... don't forget to rinse and repeat with a nice "sabbatical" for book writing in between screwing up people's lives by being their bosses bosses idiot boss.
All good programmers should know some C. If you want to be serious, you should know at least two radically different Assembly languages. I would offer a really good programmer should know ASM and JASM today. I personally learned ASM and MIPS when I was a new programmer. It has helped me tremendously... even when I was just doing web development. Understanding what the machine is doing at the byte level helps in understanding i18n issues.
... I'm still a new programmer. Stay adaptable, keep learning, never assume you know all you need to know. Learn from everyone including the new programmers who are just learning themselves. Take time at least once every few weeks to stop and ask:
Could I have done that better?
How would another developer have done this?
How would a programmer on a different platform have done this?
Once a year I stop and spend some time thinking hard about:
How would I have worked the last few year's projects with today's technology?
How will things change this year because of what happened last year?
How can I position myself and my company to deal with the next year?
What should I learn this year and when should I learn it by?
What conferences should I attend?
How will all this affect my employment prospects?
So far this strategy has worked for me... of course it took most of the first decade to discover it. You are welcome to copy off of my notes. Asking Slashdot shows you are at least curious, that's good, take time to learn about and learn from leaders in your technology niche.
* Professional liability, and the associated professional liability insurance premiums.
Professional responsibility does come with a price. It doesn't have to be that bad. Not every shop needs "licensed" engineers. There was a time when Doctors did not have liability insurance at all. The insurance premium is a symptom of a different disease.
From the post: "Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?"
The answer is no; "IT professionals" are not professionals because there is no regulation. At best, it can be considered a trade.
Which is why the ACM and other bodies were tinkering with the idea of a certification and licensing examination. This would introduce a body that could introduce simple and light weight regulation to the profession. The idea would be you could be a licensed software engineer if you wanted to be. The hope was that in time companies would begin to see that as an asset.
Texas has a license for practicing Software Engineering but I don't think anyone outside of Texas takes that seriously. I think we do need a tradesman and professional level in the industry. Unfortunately, the idea hasn't taken hold and probably never will.
Could you point us toward a candidate who has? Seriously? Sci & Tech don't register on most politician's agendas... and when they do they have to be careful. There's no civil rights movement style charisma behind electronic rights AND the money is on the other side.
Seriously. Where's the "Let my People P2P!" speech? Where's the "I have a digital dream" speech? Where's the "Ich bin ein Internetter" speech? Nobody stands up and says: "neutral fiber to every home and to every home a computer!"
So aside from the head of Al Gore in a jar (and his mission to save the moon men) I'd say no politician really "gets" geek issues.
Extremely shallow "technology" analysis...
just superficial mention of "broadband" and "Internet", hardly a vision about TECHNOLOGY, and its underlying basis, SCIENCE.
It is well-known that Palin's position on science is appalling... and she has NO appreciation for the need for the US to INCREASE federal investment in Technology and Science RESEARCH. She would continue the US's backsliding in science and technology relative to the rest of the world. The US used to be the undisputed leader in science/tech... now it is rapidly becoming an also-ran, due to poor investments in science/tech education and R&D.
Palin has demonstrated NO interest in reversing this trend, not even any evidence that she appreciates the issues...
Please. This is technology we're talking about. In five to ten years we might all be watching videos beamed directly into our skulls by mind-vibronium devices invented by Buckaroo Banzai.
So let's talk about ROI. You know... Return On Investment... talks about slide A... now let's talk about ROI. You know Risk Of Incarceration... flips to next slide
Google has lost some of it's Mojo. But the good news is that they still have plenty of Mo-Nay. They are also high on the "X does not suck as bad as Y" matrix.
"Your hardware won't function without an OS, so what better choice than Microsoftâ(TM)s latest offering. Despite the constant criticism, Vista is a very stable, secure and enjoyable platform to work with." --
Really?Really?Really?
Just throws all the other recommendations into question. And Vista as opposed to... what why even mention it as a choice? There is no choice. It would be like saying back in 1970's we chose the power and convenience of AT&T's phone service... as opposed to what? A can and string?
It's a gaming PC so of course it runs Vista or XP. Something like "We chose Vista for newer Direct X" pretending otherwise is an insult to the readers.
Treat your IT job as gardening. Instead of thinking how to prevent the attack think of preventing all but legitimate use. The attack vectors possible for a malicious agent are far more numerable than the legitimate uses. Encourage the growth of legitimate uses, prune illegitimate uses, and weed out malicious attacks. Allow your mind to shift freely between attacker and user and do not dwell any one place too long.
Gardeners have stress too. It's just over a much longer term. They have cycles of nurturing and cycles of reaping. A gardener and a farmer knows they cannot control nature, she has a mind of her own, instead the gardener trys to coax nature in the right direction.
It's an issue of attitude in control and the illusions of control. The gardener knows better than to assume that they control the garden. The security professional should be like-wise. Having plans, and backup plans. Cuttings and transplant beds. All in preparation for the inevitable blight or crop failure. I'm sure gardeners spend time "thinking" like snakes to be sure that they don't get a predator in their garden.
It's false to assume nature is understood or controlled better than the wild server room. Instead, see that server rooms and gardens are the same wild forests of emergent chaos brought under tentative control.
The gardener and the farmer do battle with aphids, ants, mole crickets and other pests just as the security professional does battle with attacks by worms and viruses. Both professions have their malicious vermin and the gardener of a public garden has to deal with users just as a security professional does. I'd say the professions are ironically similar.
I'm sure the gardener of a private garden is far less stressed than the gardener of a public garden. I'm sure an IT security professional guarding over a small server farm has less stress than the one watching over a large and heavily traveled network. The problems multiply with the size of the network or garden.
The happy gardener is probably wiser and has given up the illusion of control where appropriate, knows how to deal with failures, learns from mistakes, and focuses on the positive results of a blooming garden. It's sad that most IT professionals only get the spotlight when things go horribly wrong. There should be a change in the culture of businesses that instead celebrate the competent professional, not the one that cleverly gets out of being caught with their pants down.
Find ways for yourself to take pride in a flourishing network with more and more users having positive and safe experiences in your server garden. No snakes here. Find ways to show your manager blooming trees of files growing in beds of NAS servers. Help them to stop and smell the Rational Rose, or the Blooming Alfresco server.
If a snake got in, plug the hole, learn from it, and realize even the best gardeners occasionally get a snake or two in their garden. When that happens have a cursed apple for the blighter to bite down on... or a honey pot for them to fall into. It's all a matter of attitude. Nobody has the market cornered on bliss.
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Reference: Brownian Ratchet
The idea is that you could use a Brownian Ratchet within the context of a heated chip and nano-mechanical system to do work such as locally cooling the chip or charging capacitors... whatever... something useful (but exactly what we don't hear mentioned)... the article also doesn't mention it but they are probably talking about ratchets where the pawl assembly (T2 on the wikipedia picture) is small enough to enable energy to be extracted from the thermal gradient in accordance with the second law of thermal dynamics. This would effectively cool the chip by converting heat to nano-mechanical energy.
So these future chips are not just nano-electrical they are also nano-mechanical...
It finds my old web page hosted on delphi.com. I wrote that HTML on an Apple IIgs in 1996 or so.
I found copies of my old code I had lost! C/C++! OpenGL! Hurray! Good gravy... my old site was ugly.
Large Hadron Collider has some interesting results, I didn't realize plans for it's construction went back so far.
Dude, the LHC was not built in a day.
They say "their earliest available index". I bet the ones before that are on some obsolete tape format that they can no longer read.
Or their engine has changed so significantly that they can't use the older data without building a retrofitted server farm...
Fuel prices then were out of control with California being forced to pay $1.13/gal.
I'm so glad in the future we got the looming fuel crisis of 2001 under control and we solved the looming global financial crisis too...
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=Financial+crisis&hl=en&btnG=Search
Last time I checked, one tenth and one-one hundredth are NOT the same as ten times (10X) and one hundred times (100X).
Has Slashdot been failing their math courses?
wir nat gud at spelings or maeths but wir gud at teknoliji.
Wont this start an infinite cascade of similar statements?
And that's how we'll break the patent system. They'll get so caught up in recursive patents that they'll chew up all available resources in the US government eventually causing an out of memory error. The whole government will crash because there will be no space left for log files. The result will force a reboot of the US government.
Yep. And, as usual, xkcd said it best.
You can't link to that. I patented linking to XKCD.
ahem
Or you can get your MBA, become a C level executive, hopelessly **** up a company, and then get a large compensation package for leaving.
... don't forget to rinse and repeat with a nice "sabbatical" for book writing in between screwing up people's lives by being their bosses bosses idiot boss.
In today's world the only thing you need to know to be an excellent programmer is how to use a wii-mote all this "code" and such is just quaint~
All good programmers should know some C. If you want to be serious, you should know at least two radically different Assembly languages. I would offer a really good programmer should know ASM and JASM today. I personally learned ASM and MIPS when I was a new programmer. It has helped me tremendously ... even when I was just doing web development. Understanding what the machine is doing at the byte level helps in understanding i18n issues.
... I'm still a new programmer. Stay adaptable, keep learning, never assume you know all you need to know. Learn from everyone including the new programmers who are just learning themselves. Take time at least once every few weeks to stop and ask:
Once a year I stop and spend some time thinking hard about:
So far this strategy has worked for me... of course it took most of the first decade to discover it. You are welcome to copy off of my notes. Asking Slashdot shows you are at least curious, that's good, take time to learn about and learn from leaders in your technology niche.
* Professional liability, and the associated professional liability insurance premiums.
Professional responsibility does come with a price. It doesn't have to be that bad. Not every shop needs "licensed" engineers. There was a time when Doctors did not have liability insurance at all. The insurance premium is a symptom of a different disease.
From the post:
"Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?"
The answer is no; "IT professionals" are not professionals because there is no regulation. At best, it can be considered a trade.
Which is why the ACM and other bodies were tinkering with the idea of a certification and licensing examination. This would introduce a body that could introduce simple and light weight regulation to the profession. The idea would be you could be a licensed software engineer if you wanted to be. The hope was that in time companies would begin to see that as an asset.
Texas has a license for practicing Software Engineering but I don't think anyone outside of Texas takes that seriously. I think we do need a tradesman and professional level in the industry. Unfortunately, the idea hasn't taken hold and probably never will.
... another man's ... well... umm... man.
Could you point us toward a candidate who has? Seriously? Sci & Tech don't register on most politician's agendas ... and when they do they have to be careful. There's no civil rights movement style charisma behind electronic rights AND the money is on the other side.
Seriously. Where's the "Let my People P2P!" speech? Where's the "I have a digital dream" speech? Where's the "Ich bin ein Internetter" speech? Nobody stands up and says: "neutral fiber to every home and to every home a computer!"
So aside from the head of Al Gore in a jar (and his mission to save the moon men) I'd say no politician really "gets" geek issues.
Extremely shallow "technology" analysis...
just superficial mention of "broadband" and "Internet", hardly a vision about TECHNOLOGY, and its underlying basis, SCIENCE.
It is well-known that Palin's position on science is appalling... and she has NO appreciation for the need for the US to INCREASE federal investment in Technology and Science RESEARCH. She would continue the US's backsliding in science and technology relative to the rest of the world. The US used to be the undisputed leader in science/tech... now it is rapidly becoming an also-ran, due to poor investments in science/tech education and R&D.
Palin has demonstrated NO interest in reversing this trend, not even any evidence that she appreciates the issues...
Please. This is technology we're talking about. In five to ten years we might all be watching videos beamed directly into our skulls by mind-vibronium devices invented by Buckaroo Banzai.
So the title for each slide could be ROI. Nice!
So let's talk about ROI. You know... Return On Investment... talks about slide A ... now let's talk about ROI. You know Risk Of Incarceration... flips to next slide
Standardizing on JavaScript was a mistake. But it wasn't as stupid as standardizing on the alternative.
SLIDE A:
1) We create software.
2) Software is used in medical devices.
3) We forego QA and industry best practices for software development.
4) Something goes wrong.
5) We get sued AND we lose (to the five-nines sure).
6) Change #1 to "Update resume".
SLIDE B
1) We create software.
2) Software is used in medical devices.
3) We follow industry best practices for software development and have a solid QA program.
4) Something goes wrong (yes, it still happens).
5) We get sued.
6) Our controls and best practices are a reasonable defense.
Nice. Remember ROI means Return On Investment ... or it can mean... Risk Of Incarceration.
Google has lost some of it's Mojo. But the good news is that they still have plenty of Mo-Nay. They are also high on the "X does not suck as bad as Y" matrix.
"Your hardware won't function without an OS, so what better choice than Microsoftâ(TM)s latest offering. Despite the constant criticism, Vista is a very stable, secure and enjoyable platform to work with." --
Really? Really? Really?
Just throws all the other recommendations into question. And Vista as opposed to ... what why even mention it as a choice? There is no choice. It would be like saying back in 1970's we chose the power and convenience of AT&T's phone service... as opposed to what? A can and string?
It's a gaming PC so of course it runs Vista or XP. Something like "We chose Vista for newer Direct X" pretending otherwise is an insult to the readers.
Treat your IT job as gardening. Instead of thinking how to prevent the attack think of preventing all but legitimate use. The attack vectors possible for a malicious agent are far more numerable than the legitimate uses. Encourage the growth of legitimate uses, prune illegitimate uses, and weed out malicious attacks. Allow your mind to shift freely between attacker and user and do not dwell any one place too long.
Gardeners have stress too. It's just over a much longer term. They have cycles of nurturing and cycles of reaping. A gardener and a farmer knows they cannot control nature, she has a mind of her own, instead the gardener trys to coax nature in the right direction.
It's an issue of attitude in control and the illusions of control. The gardener knows better than to assume that they control the garden. The security professional should be like-wise. Having plans, and backup plans. Cuttings and transplant beds. All in preparation for the inevitable blight or crop failure. I'm sure gardeners spend time "thinking" like snakes to be sure that they don't get a predator in their garden.
It's false to assume nature is understood or controlled better than the wild server room. Instead, see that server rooms and gardens are the same wild forests of emergent chaos brought under tentative control.
The gardener and the farmer do battle with aphids, ants, mole crickets and other pests just as the security professional does battle with attacks by worms and viruses. Both professions have their malicious vermin and the gardener of a public garden has to deal with users just as a security professional does. I'd say the professions are ironically similar.
I'm sure the gardener of a private garden is far less stressed than the gardener of a public garden. I'm sure an IT security professional guarding over a small server farm has less stress than the one watching over a large and heavily traveled network. The problems multiply with the size of the network or garden.
The happy gardener is probably wiser and has given up the illusion of control where appropriate, knows how to deal with failures, learns from mistakes, and focuses on the positive results of a blooming garden. It's sad that most IT professionals only get the spotlight when things go horribly wrong. There should be a change in the culture of businesses that instead celebrate the competent professional, not the one that cleverly gets out of being caught with their pants down.
Find ways for yourself to take pride in a flourishing network with more and more users having positive and safe experiences in your server garden. No snakes here. Find ways to show your manager blooming trees of files growing in beds of NAS servers. Help them to stop and smell the Rational Rose, or the Blooming Alfresco server.
If a snake got in, plug the hole, learn from it, and realize even the best gardeners occasionally get a snake or two in their garden. When that happens have a cursed apple for the blighter to bite down on... or a honey pot for them to fall into. It's all a matter of attitude. Nobody has the market cornered on bliss.
Build social systems that do not need personal information to be kept secret or do not need personal information to be transmitted.