So this is a patent filling, right from the USPTO - it isn't mine, e-mailed the law firm, no response. I am assuming sometime before it issues, but who knows. I would rather believe that the government screwed up rather than Microsoft is busy buying up patents on apple trees
Currently Intel is apparently the low cost provider, plus they get to charge a premium currently. Everyone says AMD is the low cost producer, but with Intel's Gross Margin (what is it, 50% +/- a couple percentage points) I can't see them having a higher production cost.
If Dell were to seriously consider switching to Opteron/Athlon, Intel could easily afford to crater their margins for Dell, leaving AMD unprofitable.
Uh, try again. The people I work with in India make in the order of 30K a year at the dollar exchange rate. That is well above minimum wage (15ish an hour)
However, what that buys you is a house, a car, a maid, a cook...
To have those things in California would run me well over 150K, probably well into the 400K range. Why the difference, well for one - a fixer up house in the bay area runs just under a million (figure 5K a month in mortgage) a car is another 400 a month, wages for two servants at 3K a month (we are going to pay them minimum wage right ?) that is 8500 before taxes without any money left to eat, pay taxes, or anything.
Don't go blaming it on wages - they do very well for themselves over there
I filed several patents - the last of which was filed in the spring of 2001. 3 years later NONE of them have issued (including one that is passing 4 years now). I don't see a doubling to 5 years, just an increase to 5 years.
Try living in Silicon Valley on 13 an hour. That is at the poverty line here. I sure as hell wouldn't want to try it with "Cheap" 1 beadroom housing going for 800-900 a month. Also note that your link puts poverty for the whole damned country at just above 9 an hour for a family of 4. That includes places where you can rent a mansion for 600 a month.
So your arguement is flawed in that it takes the average of the U.S. when places like California are considered to be twice as expensive as the average
You are going to compare the cost of a simple Wi-Fi base station with the cost of a cell base station ?
I also don't think you can get a cell location to within 10 m without the cell phone reporting back GPS info. Cell tracking just isn't that accurate (especially with only one base station)
It is also somewhere barely above poverty... Hell I made 12 bucks an hour when I was in school 15 years ago. Yes, I got to live like a king in a small college town. But now I have a mortgage that is 3 times what I was paying in Rent - and frankly I like my nice stuff.
Now if you are in school somewhere in California, or expensive towns in the North East - I feel sorry for you that you can't make money. If you are in school somewhere in the midwest - I agree 13 bucks an hour is GREAT for a college student.
People always talk about outsourcing from California to India where the difference in salary is like 4 - 1. But you can get 2 - 1 just by relocating to the suburbs of Des Moines (of course I know more people here that would rather live in Bangalore than Des Moines)
I am not suprised that people/companies are flocking out of Silicon Valley for those savings
No blatant typos and grammer can't completely suck
Can't break the internet
Must show adherance to RFC 2026
Yup - that is about it, so they get an informational RFC out of it. Who cares if no one in the world implements it. I would be worried if they were getting a standards track RFC that implies that people actually had to agree that it was the right thing to do.
So I was biking home from work one day - and the whole side of my hand went numb. I grabbed my manager and asked what to do (since it might affect work etc.)
Being the good manager that he was - he recommended that I see the company nurse that deals with such things daily as opposed to your doctor that sees them once in a while (think about it). The nurse looked me over and said - yes I was showing classic signs.
Step one - see an eronomist
Step two - see if that helps
Step three - well it did help - so I didn't go there
Of course I was working for a company that had an eronomic program - I was actually doing pretty good (my monitor was too low and raising it made a back ache I didn't even realize I had go away), but my hands went all wonky when I hot keyed, so was told to watch it and use the trackball more often.
I don't know what state you are in, but you should be able to go to a doctor and say my wrists hurt, get treatment and have your insurance cover it. If your insurance wants to go after your employer, that is their damned problem (IANAL)
So as a 13 year vet myself - I see my benefit to my employer as a teacher. I have experience on what has worked and what hasn't - how things are run, etc. that can be passed on.
So make sure you are using your role as a mentor correctly
Re:Sniffing only works when on that network.
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I remember when:
Seems my office was 2 miles down the road from my house - traceroute from my house in Portland, OR to my office went through both Seattle AND MAE-West (Bay Area, CA)
Many external countries only have external connections to the USA, not directly to each other (don't know how true this currently is - but several asian countries used to have to hit the W Coast, USA to get between each other)
Since it is easer to use - the average user of Windows has significantly less experience. This leads directly to more vulnerabilities as inexperienced users do things that no sane experienced person would do.
Inevitably as you create environments that any idiot can use (see Windows) any and every idiot will use them - leading to more security problems.
As an example - up until the last couple of windows exploits, the user of the infected machine was required to open an encrypted.zip file with a provided password, see the executable inside of it, then execute the program to be infected.
How many experienced Unix admins would take a shell script out of an e-mail and execute the shell script that did an cd / rm -rf ? Not too many, windows users did it by the droves.
what's the problem?? I'm not trying to troll, but why is this such a big deal?
It isn't YOUR privacy that they are worried about. How about all of the people around you that are now being "photographed" on a regular basis. My wife HATES having her picture taken. Now anyone wearing glasses might be taking her picture 20 times a second. At least if they go to pull the camera out she has a chance to say "No thank you - I prefer not to have my picture taken".
I'm not even going to go into all of the places that you shouldn't be taking pictures anyway (locker rooms, gyms, dr. office, the list goes on)
No, closer to a Bob B, oh well - sorry to see there are many of these companies around.
My favorite day was when I had predicted a feature - getting two systems to talk to each other. I had architected how to handle the feature, designed the protocol, etc. When it was time to go - it actually took two weeks. Downside was, that was the new goal. Never helps to be prepared - you can't predict everything, and just get yelled at when you can't predict the future.
Seems that I worked for a very small company that might as well stay nameless. Sales sold a project to a custommer, engineering started working on it (custommer liked the shiny brochoure - didn't know it wasn't a product yet) my manager and I got on a plane to "install" the product. The product had never been linked - much less tested. Spent a week in a closet debugging the whole thing onsite.
Later cow-worker decided something needed to be shipped to a custommer. Rather than grabbing my working code off of a newly installed fileserver - he goes onto my machine, finds a module in my development directory, packs it up and ships it with the rest of the application to the custommer. When somehow my code didn't work the next day (suprise suprise - I was halfway through rewritting an ISR), I had to sit through being yelled at for 2 hours by the owner of the company. I agreed to never leave any code around that wasn't fully functional (basically I started encrypting my development areas on my hard drive) so this could never happen again.
Too many other stories to relate... two days after getting my BS degree, I handed in my resignation and count it as an experience on how NOT to develop software.
I seem to have goofed by an order of magnitude on the transmission voltage. From TVA Seems the lines are 500KVolt... Still haven't confirmed/denied AC vs. DC
I would figure your device needs 440W. At 220V you pull 2A to get that. You drop the Voltage to 205V and your device now pulls just under 2.15A.
I guess in a micro scale it doesn't save electricity - but in a macro scale several devices don't let more than X Amps go through before popping a circuit breaker, therefor the devices are pulling a constant amperage and saves power.
On a side note - I thought I remembered that the higher the voltage, the more efficient the transmission line, however I know that works for DC (If I recall TVA uses something like 50K Volt DC lines to ship power around) don't know about AC power.
there is another tool called ccache, which is a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, that I wont be discussing here. For all of the tests it was turned off to properly determine distcc's performance, but developers should also know about this tool and using it in conjunction for the best results and shortest compile times.
Seems to me - he is ignoring the hard part of getting the best benefit out of the tool package... Kinda like talking about optimizing c code before talking about optimizing algorithms
Missed the best point
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He completely ignored the usage of distcc and ccache together. The pair of applications make for a huge win.
There are some problems though - which do you do first ccache or distcc (answer on my benchmarks is ccache - if it isn't in the cache send it on the network) how fast is your "build" machine - this is critical. The build machine is resonsible for preprocessing the file, checking if it is in the cache and then sending it out to be turned into an object. Especially when you interact the results of ccache (which most of your builds are just the same file over and over - very few "changed" files) and distcc - most of your time is spent in the first pass compiler.
In our environment we had boatloads of dual XEON machines around - they made wonderful build machines, and it didn't hurt that we connected them with Gig Ethernet either. Did wonders for our build times.
Over all distcc and ccache are wonderful tools that should be in every large compile environment - making compiles that used to take days take simple minutes. But you want to make sure that the dependancy between ccache and distcc work optimally in your environment.
I would choose a distribution based on either source/binary packaging. Don't bother fighting your distribution (have the worst of both worlds)
That said - for a work machine, I prefer binary packages. I just want the damned thing to work, work well, and not futz with it.
For a hobby/play/research machine - I prefer source packages. I have found there are many compilers out there that will massively outperform GCC, especially when you turn on those crazy optimizations that most binary distributions won't (plus optimize for the EXACT processor I am running on, etc.)
Leaving is the simple solution - find a nice job somewhere that they don't care how you perform, the problem is that loosers and slackers will tend to hang out there
Game the systems: Figure out how you will be rated, and maximize your value to the management team. Bring your concerns about how other people are gaming the system. It turns out in environments I have been in with Ranking systems - the review feedback on backstabbers has not been very good, and people that genuinely help their team mates tend to do very well. YMMV depending on your manager.
I will also say that it is very important for you to trust your first line manager in this environment - they will be defending the rating that you get and are responsible for getting you bumped up, or having some other manager have you bumped down. It turns out that the managers are much more competetive in this environment than the employees ever will be (you ever seen two managers get into fisty cuffs with several managers trying to seperate them after a heated discussion on who's employee is better ?)
So government computers have old OSes, old network connections, and old hardware. This doesn't make them any more vulnerable when deployed in a correct networking environment (just because there are network cables - doesn't mean they are hooked up to the network). I would be a lot more wary if the computers were not locked down and you were able to start typing on the keyboard, or even better - just steal the whole darned thing.
In reality Windows 3.1 was a pretty secure OS - after all there was no networking built in (it was an add on) so very few remote vulnerabilities. That said - there were a LOT of vulnerabilities in the add on software to get them on the network. The other thing going for them is if they are old enough a lot of the vulnerabilities (various scripting flaws etc.) weren't built in to the level that they are today - making the current crop of random Trojan horses a lot less effective
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So this is a patent filling, right from the USPTO - it isn't mine, e-mailed the law firm, no response. I am assuming sometime before it issues, but who knows. I would rather believe that the government screwed up rather than Microsoft is busy buying up patents on apple trees
If Dell were to seriously consider switching to Opteron/Athlon, Intel could easily afford to crater their margins for Dell, leaving AMD unprofitable.
However, what that buys you is a house, a car, a maid, a cook...
To have those things in California would run me well over 150K, probably well into the 400K range. Why the difference, well for one - a fixer up house in the bay area runs just under a million (figure 5K a month in mortgage) a car is another 400 a month, wages for two servants at 3K a month (we are going to pay them minimum wage right ?) that is 8500 before taxes without any money left to eat, pay taxes, or anything.
Don't go blaming it on wages - they do very well for themselves over there
I filed several patents - the last of which was filed in the spring of 2001. 3 years later NONE of them have issued (including one that is passing 4 years now). I don't see a doubling to 5 years, just an increase to 5 years.
Don't forget that DHMO is a major ingredient in Acid Rain and gaseous DHMO can cause burns on exposed skin
Protect yourself from this chemical today
So your arguement is flawed in that it takes the average of the U.S. when places like California are considered to be twice as expensive as the average
I also don't think you can get a cell location to within 10 m without the cell phone reporting back GPS info. Cell tracking just isn't that accurate (especially with only one base station)
It is also somewhere barely above poverty... Hell I made 12 bucks an hour when I was in school 15 years ago. Yes, I got to live like a king in a small college town. But now I have a mortgage that is 3 times what I was paying in Rent - and frankly I like my nice stuff.
Now if you are in school somewhere in California, or expensive towns in the North East - I feel sorry for you that you can't make money. If you are in school somewhere in the midwest - I agree 13 bucks an hour is GREAT for a college student.
People always talk about outsourcing from California to India where the difference in salary is like 4 - 1. But you can get 2 - 1 just by relocating to the suburbs of Des Moines (of course I know more people here that would rather live in Bangalore than Des Moines)
I am not suprised that people/companies are flocking out of Silicon Valley for those savings
No blatant typos and grammer can't completely suck
Can't break the internet
Must show adherance to RFC 2026
Yup - that is about it, so they get an informational RFC out of it. Who cares if no one in the world implements it. I would be worried if they were getting a standards track RFC that implies that people actually had to agree that it was the right thing to do.
Being the good manager that he was - he recommended that I see the company nurse that deals with such things daily as opposed to your doctor that sees them once in a while (think about it). The nurse looked me over and said - yes I was showing classic signs.
Step one - see an eronomist
Step two - see if that helps
Step three - well it did help - so I didn't go there
Of course I was working for a company that had an eronomic program - I was actually doing pretty good (my monitor was too low and raising it made a back ache I didn't even realize I had go away), but my hands went all wonky when I hot keyed, so was told to watch it and use the trackball more often.
I don't know what state you are in, but you should be able to go to a doctor and say my wrists hurt, get treatment and have your insurance cover it. If your insurance wants to go after your employer, that is their damned problem (IANAL)
So make sure you are using your role as a mentor correctly
Seems my office was 2 miles down the road from my house - traceroute from my house in Portland, OR to my office went through both Seattle AND MAE-West (Bay Area, CA)
Many external countries only have external connections to the USA, not directly to each other (don't know how true this currently is - but several asian countries used to have to hit the W Coast, USA to get between each other)
Inevitably as you create environments that any idiot can use (see Windows) any and every idiot will use them - leading to more security problems.
As an example - up until the last couple of windows exploits, the user of the infected machine was required to open an encrypted .zip file with a provided password, see the executable inside of it, then execute the program to be infected.
How many experienced Unix admins would take a shell script out of an e-mail and execute the shell script that did an cd / rm -rf ? Not too many, windows users did it by the droves.
It isn't YOUR privacy that they are worried about. How about all of the people around you that are now being "photographed" on a regular basis. My wife HATES having her picture taken. Now anyone wearing glasses might be taking her picture 20 times a second. At least if they go to pull the camera out she has a chance to say "No thank you - I prefer not to have my picture taken".
I'm not even going to go into all of the places that you shouldn't be taking pictures anyway (locker rooms, gyms, dr. office, the list goes on)
My favorite day was when I had predicted a feature - getting two systems to talk to each other. I had architected how to handle the feature, designed the protocol, etc. When it was time to go - it actually took two weeks. Downside was, that was the new goal. Never helps to be prepared - you can't predict everything, and just get yelled at when you can't predict the future.
not a typo
Later cow-worker decided something needed to be shipped to a custommer. Rather than grabbing my working code off of a newly installed fileserver - he goes onto my machine, finds a module in my development directory, packs it up and ships it with the rest of the application to the custommer. When somehow my code didn't work the next day (suprise suprise - I was halfway through rewritting an ISR), I had to sit through being yelled at for 2 hours by the owner of the company. I agreed to never leave any code around that wasn't fully functional (basically I started encrypting my development areas on my hard drive) so this could never happen again.
Too many other stories to relate... two days after getting my BS degree, I handed in my resignation and count it as an experience on how NOT to develop software.
I seem to have goofed by an order of magnitude on the transmission voltage. From TVA Seems the lines are 500KVolt... Still haven't confirmed/denied AC vs. DC
I guess in a micro scale it doesn't save electricity - but in a macro scale several devices don't let more than X Amps go through before popping a circuit breaker, therefor the devices are pulling a constant amperage and saves power.
On a side note - I thought I remembered that the higher the voltage, the more efficient the transmission line, however I know that works for DC (If I recall TVA uses something like 50K Volt DC lines to ship power around) don't know about AC power.
Seems to me - he is ignoring the hard part of getting the best benefit out of the tool package... Kinda like talking about optimizing c code before talking about optimizing algorithms
There are some problems though - which do you do first ccache or distcc (answer on my benchmarks is ccache - if it isn't in the cache send it on the network) how fast is your "build" machine - this is critical. The build machine is resonsible for preprocessing the file, checking if it is in the cache and then sending it out to be turned into an object. Especially when you interact the results of ccache (which most of your builds are just the same file over and over - very few "changed" files) and distcc - most of your time is spent in the first pass compiler.
In our environment we had boatloads of dual XEON machines around - they made wonderful build machines, and it didn't hurt that we connected them with Gig Ethernet either. Did wonders for our build times.
Over all distcc and ccache are wonderful tools that should be in every large compile environment - making compiles that used to take days take simple minutes. But you want to make sure that the dependancy between ccache and distcc work optimally in your environment.
That said - for a work machine, I prefer binary packages. I just want the damned thing to work, work well, and not futz with it.
For a hobby/play/research machine - I prefer source packages. I have found there are many compilers out there that will massively outperform GCC, especially when you turn on those crazy optimizations that most binary distributions won't (plus optimize for the EXACT processor I am running on, etc.)
Leaving is the simple solution - find a nice job somewhere that they don't care how you perform, the problem is that loosers and slackers will tend to hang out there
Game the systems: Figure out how you will be rated, and maximize your value to the management team. Bring your concerns about how other people are gaming the system. It turns out in environments I have been in with Ranking systems - the review feedback on backstabbers has not been very good, and people that genuinely help their team mates tend to do very well. YMMV depending on your manager.
I will also say that it is very important for you to trust your first line manager in this environment - they will be defending the rating that you get and are responsible for getting you bumped up, or having some other manager have you bumped down. It turns out that the managers are much more competetive in this environment than the employees ever will be (you ever seen two managers get into fisty cuffs with several managers trying to seperate them after a heated discussion on who's employee is better ?)
In reality Windows 3.1 was a pretty secure OS - after all there was no networking built in (it was an add on) so very few remote vulnerabilities. That said - there were a LOT of vulnerabilities in the add on software to get them on the network. The other thing going for them is if they are old enough a lot of the vulnerabilities (various scripting flaws etc.) weren't built in to the level that they are today - making the current crop of random Trojan horses a lot less effective