I've also telecommuted a lot, my solution is that I live in a rural area where rent is cheap and there are lots of outdoor activities to get me out of the house. Also hanging at the girlfriend's place when not working also seems to help.
M
Article also gives an srp of $16,500, for that much it better be fast! (Think of the linux boxen cluster you could build for 16G). It would be nice to be able to a full Navier Stokes simulation on my PC, mayber Santa we send me one...
Ironically I have a book on making bombs and explosives published by the the us federal government, that has detailed instructions on how to make explosives form commonly available materials. 'Improvised Munitions Handbook' Dept of the Army Technical Manual TM 31-210. I guess the lesson is only the government can publish bomb making materials. I purchased the book legally from a civilian publisher several years ago. I guess guys in flak jackets will be breaking down my door any minute..
MM
Fixing broken EDS code is a large part of my job, the SEVIS project is no doubt another example of EDS shoddiness. The EDS business model seems to be as follows:
- Collect $200/hr from client.
- Pay h1-B $15/ hr to produce complete choss.
- Management keeps the other $185/hr. for second vacation homes etc.
But I suppose it is better that this project fail, at least we can count on EDS for something.
MM
I was in grad school as an aerospace/fluids engineer in the mid 90's during the aerospace boom (a bit like the dot-com boom). Hypersonic aircraft were on the drawing board but never made it. Turns out we didn't have a sufficient understanding of hypersonics. Building hypersonic wind tunnels and shock tubes is very difficult so computational models were used heavily. The computational models did not have sufficent validation due to lack of experimental data, so designing hypersonic vehicles turned out be a lot more difficult than originally thought. Also the materials problems in building aircraft that can tolerate the heat of hypersonic flight is still very significant. Titanium ceramic materials were developed, but manufacturing and machining with these materials was prohibitively expensive and difficult. Back then it the thinking was that the hypersonic modelling and material problems could be rapidly overcome and this technology was a few years off, it never happened though. I kust wonder if this is not just another Darpa pie-in-the-sky project where they are assuming difficult and unsolved problems can be surmounted. Guess we'll see if this project materializes, but I am skeptical. I think the Columbia disaster painfully illustrates the significant problems of hypersonic flight.
MM
Waste, fraud and abuse. This type of situation is infortunately quite common in DoD, harks back to the $600 hammer. Unfortunatley you're tax dollors which are supposed to be for defense end up going to corporate welfare. DoD has turned into the largest barrel of pork/corporate welfare in the USA.
MM
As long as they openly an honestly declare the details of how the bench marks are made, I don't see what the issue is. Benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt anyway, caveat emptor. Anyhow I'd love to have one, just to have another 64 bit BSD OS would be great, the new Macs are a bargain compared to comparable Sun/Solaris workstation. Yeah, sure you could build a cluster of linux boxen for the same price, but some of us just want to code, and not fiddle with *nix on our spare time.
MM
does it take to operate a Jackhammer?
A: The mathematician gives the jackhammer to three engineers, thus reducing the problem to a previously told joke.
However, it only uses 40 to 60 gpm, which isn't that much water by industrial standards. Besides who wants to operate a Jack-hammer in 'zonie in the summer when its 120 F, a water powered robot sounds cool.
SCO and IBM will sue each other out of business, and we'll all live happily ever after. Remember IBM sux also, they write crappy code and sent all their software jobs to India. (maybe I'm just bitter because I have to fix their crappy code, and thet sent my job to India..)
PS (If you're job hasn't been sent over seas yet, wait a few minutes..)
Programming and software engineering is a craft, and as such takes years to master. I'm a way better coder than I was 10 years ago, and I think I will be even better in another 10 years. It is an art to write efficient, stable, and maintainable code. Those who fail to understand that programming is a craft and who prefer to hire less experienced programmers will ultimately suffer the consequences of their poor decisions.
MM
WTF, 2 grand for a PC media center (just a PC w/ DVD, sound card, etc.) For that much money you could buy a Mac and still have enough left to get all your friends drunk. Also MS in the kitchen? don't know do we really need a Microwave that GPF's. Also everything in the article could be done cheaper and better with non M$ stuff. But I guess Bill and co. like their propganda. Also you apparantly need to run a sleazy software company to afford all that crap, its not like chronically unemployed programmers will spend $$ to MS their hovel.
MM
M
Not having to hand write is a great blessing for many of us. I have a slight muscular dis-ability that impairs my ablilty to write, especially hand writing (no, the disability is not spelled 'MD'). Though I always was an A student growing up, I always was getting F's in mandatory handwriting classes throughout elementary school, which I found very frustrating and stigmatizing, especially since there was little I could do to improve the situation. The advent of key boards, PDA's etc has been a great blessing for me in that I rarely need to write anymore. Handwriting is an arcahaic method of communuication that depends upon motor skills that not everyone has, it should and will be deprecated. If kids come out of school not knowing handwriting, but able to type 30+ words a minute, I would call this progress and a very positive development.
MM
I've yet to see a valid study that indicates any long term health problems linked to caffiene. However the American Society of Addictive Medicine (ASAM) http://www.asam.org/ considers caffiene an addictive substance. http://www.asam.org/jol/jol_17_1.htm
MM
Slashdot Mirror
silly regulation from the Peoples Republic of CA. We've now beat out Florida as silliest and most backward state. M =(
I've also telecommuted a lot, my solution is that I live in a rural area where rent is cheap and there are lots of outdoor activities to get me out of the house. Also hanging at the girlfriend's place when not working also seems to help. M
Article also gives an srp of $16,500, for that much it better be fast! (Think of the linux boxen cluster you could build for 16G). It would be nice to be able to a full Navier Stokes simulation on my PC, mayber Santa we send me one...
There are several freeware rpn's for Palm OS.
Ironically I have a book on making bombs and explosives published by the the us federal government, that has detailed instructions on how to make explosives form commonly available materials. 'Improvised Munitions Handbook' Dept of the Army Technical Manual TM 31-210. I guess the lesson is only the government can publish bomb making materials. I purchased the book legally from a civilian publisher several years ago. I guess guys in flak jackets will be breaking down my door any minute.. MM
I suppose you're PHB saw a full page Ad in 'Time' by M$...
Yes, I guess EDS does provide job security for many of us. But it sure is fun to slander EDS after another fun filled day of unF&%*&ing EDS crap. MM
Fixing broken EDS code is a large part of my job, the SEVIS project is no doubt another example of EDS shoddiness. The EDS business model seems to be as follows: - Collect $200/hr from client. - Pay h1-B $15/ hr to produce complete choss. - Management keeps the other $185/hr. for second vacation homes etc. But I suppose it is better that this project fail, at least we can count on EDS for something. MM
I was in grad school as an aerospace/fluids engineer in the mid 90's during the aerospace boom (a bit like the dot-com boom). Hypersonic aircraft were on the drawing board but never made it. Turns out we didn't have a sufficient understanding of hypersonics. Building hypersonic wind tunnels and shock tubes is very difficult so computational models were used heavily. The computational models did not have sufficent validation due to lack of experimental data, so designing hypersonic vehicles turned out be a lot more difficult than originally thought. Also the materials problems in building aircraft that can tolerate the heat of hypersonic flight is still very significant. Titanium ceramic materials were developed, but manufacturing and machining with these materials was prohibitively expensive and difficult. Back then it the thinking was that the hypersonic modelling and material problems could be rapidly overcome and this technology was a few years off, it never happened though. I kust wonder if this is not just another Darpa pie-in-the-sky project where they are assuming difficult and unsolved problems can be surmounted. Guess we'll see if this project materializes, but I am skeptical. I think the Columbia disaster painfully illustrates the significant problems of hypersonic flight. MM
are better off let to die..
as I said..
Waste, fraud and abuse. This type of situation is infortunately quite common in DoD, harks back to the $600 hammer. Unfortunatley you're tax dollors which are supposed to be for defense end up going to corporate welfare. DoD has turned into the largest barrel of pork/corporate welfare in the USA. MM
As long as they openly an honestly declare the details of how the bench marks are made, I don't see what the issue is. Benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt anyway, caveat emptor. Anyhow I'd love to have one, just to have another 64 bit BSD OS would be great, the new Macs are a bargain compared to comparable Sun/Solaris workstation. Yeah, sure you could build a cluster of linux boxen for the same price, but some of us just want to code, and not fiddle with *nix on our spare time. MM
when you can't find a job programming any more and have to drive trucks, you will still be able to /.
does it take to operate a Jackhammer? A: The mathematician gives the jackhammer to three engineers, thus reducing the problem to a previously told joke.
However, it only uses 40 to 60 gpm, which isn't that much water by industrial standards. Besides who wants to operate a Jack-hammer in 'zonie in the summer when its 120 F, a water powered robot sounds cool.
Let the collect un-employment, like all the programmers. What is better being replaced by a robot, or having you're job sent to India?
SCO and IBM will sue each other out of business, and we'll all live happily ever after. Remember IBM sux also, they write crappy code and sent all their software jobs to India. (maybe I'm just bitter because I have to fix their crappy code, and thet sent my job to India..) PS (If you're job hasn't been sent over seas yet, wait a few minutes..)
Programming and software engineering is a craft, and as such takes years to master. I'm a way better coder than I was 10 years ago, and I think I will be even better in another 10 years. It is an art to write efficient, stable, and maintainable code. Those who fail to understand that programming is a craft and who prefer to hire less experienced programmers will ultimately suffer the consequences of their poor decisions. MM
Well no, but we're looking for suggestions to eliminate these also..
WTF, 2 grand for a PC media center (just a PC w/ DVD, sound card, etc.) For that much money you could buy a Mac and still have enough left to get all your friends drunk. Also MS in the kitchen? don't know do we really need a Microwave that GPF's. Also everything in the article could be done cheaper and better with non M$ stuff. But I guess Bill and co. like their propganda. Also you apparantly need to run a sleazy software company to afford all that crap, its not like chronically unemployed programmers will spend $$ to MS their hovel. MM M
Not having to hand write is a great blessing for many of us. I have a slight muscular dis-ability that impairs my ablilty to write, especially hand writing (no, the disability is not spelled 'MD'). Though I always was an A student growing up, I always was getting F's in mandatory handwriting classes throughout elementary school, which I found very frustrating and stigmatizing, especially since there was little I could do to improve the situation. The advent of key boards, PDA's etc has been a great blessing for me in that I rarely need to write anymore. Handwriting is an arcahaic method of communuication that depends upon motor skills that not everyone has, it should and will be deprecated. If kids come out of school not knowing handwriting, but able to type 30+ words a minute, I would call this progress and a very positive development. MM
Hey F$%& U!!! - anonomous developer
I've yet to see a valid study that indicates any long term health problems linked to caffiene. However the American Society of Addictive Medicine (ASAM) http://www.asam.org/ considers caffiene an addictive substance. http://www.asam.org/jol/jol_17_1.htm MM
Sugar coated shit is still shit. MM