Yes they do advertise... I see their ads in the WSJ on a very regular bassis. I think they are just not doing end consummer advertising - they are trying to get to the people with real money to buy their chips.
Unfortunately "Sucks" is a relative term
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I don't know why you bothered listing Quicksilver as Science Fiction (was it just because N. Stevenson wrote it ?) because it is definately historical fiction.
As for Science Fiction "sucking" I guess it tends to depend on what you are looking for. I read several kinds of books - Short, cheap, light, "sucky", science fiction when I have to get on a plane - more complicated, deeper, longer science fiction at home.
So I guess I will be the first to admit given the right circumstances I LOVE sci-fi that you claim "sucks". Frankly - I'd just assume loose myself in a quick starwars/star trek novel for the 2-3 hours on a plane than work - so it is great for me
Ok - before I get flamed for not looking at the balance sheet of GM closely enough. While there is 271B in Debt - there is also 41B in cash and 21B in short term investments. I would also like to note the 166B in long term investments (debt owed to GMAC probably - remember all of those 0 percent loans ???) - so the enterprise value of GM isn't quite as high as reported above probably closer to 140-150B.
That said - this is why evaluating balance sheets are quite difficult, especially for companies with strange debt (see Enron - by hiding their debt - they looked a lot stronger than they really were, remember if you don't see the debt - your enterprise value goes down)
I buy all the shares of Microsoft spending 288 Billion in the process (Ok - I would assume I'd have to pay a premium over this value - but for the sake of arguement lets make it an even 300 B)
When I am done - what do I have, all of Microsoft - plus a little over 50 Billion in cash that I can use to blow in a party - so I spent 300 Billion - but got 50 Billion back in change - Enterprise Value - 250 Billion
Now lets go buy GM 27 B Market cap (lets call it 30 Billion) but what do I get back 271 Billion in Debt that I will have to finance making the aquisition cost me 300 B.
Yes all of this is factored into the price of the stock - but when you deal with large numbers like this enterprise value does matter. This is the difference between market cap (what it would take to buy all the shares) and enterprise value (what it is really worth - due to balance sheet items)
Now I get access to their bank account - if the company has net debt (see Disney) I have to pay that off (either through loan payments, or through other means)
If the company has net cash (see Microsoft) I can take that money and do whatever I want with it
So Enterprise value of a company is
The cost of all of the shares of stock
Plus the debt of the company
Minus the cash/etc. of the company
End result is paying debt off from cash is a net wash on enterprise value because the cash is smaller, but the debt is as well.
End result is I prefer companies with smaller debt loads - it is easier to predict their earnings (every penny they make goes to profit, not debt service) however companies with large debt loads can have huge swings in earnings because the first 10 bucks they make go to debt service, and every penny beyond that goes to profit - so a small change in profits look a lot bigger (compare 10.02 to 10.01 dollars vs. 0.02 vs 0.01 as a percentage)
Yes, but anyone can make systems like this and perform these tests. 7000 dollars is well within the budget of most any bussiness custommer that would need to do this kind of benchmarking.
What would be very interesting is to see how these various OSes scale as you go from 1 to 4 - 16 -32 processors. Especially when you start throwing in things like NUMA (see 4-8 way opterons here)
These are closer to value server platform...
2 Procs - comodity, lets see how the various distros do on 16-64 way servers
2 GB RAM ? why so limiting - lets get this up to 64 GB - or more
The disk system might not be too bad - but hardware Raid 5 would be more realistic
Of course what they are going to do is figure out which distro runs a FPS with the highest frame rate
I mean gcc's strength has never been fast code (all though it is no slouch) it has been cross platform. You can use GCC on everything from the biggest 64 bit procs down to the smallest embedded CPUs.
Of course a vendors supplied compiler that doesn't have to even think about potential optimizations for another platform will outperform it. It is a testiment to the gcc folks that it is even close.
Just drive up and use the antenna on your laptop... If you need more than that get a cantenna. Why the hell would you want to mount the whole thing on your car ?
This is what is really bad about the situation for SCO. Once they expose their Copyright claims, someone quickly either pulls the code out (if it is something like NUMA support - it isn't even compiled in for many kernels) or rewrites the code to be non-infringing.
It would take Goodle about 2 months to pull significant chunks of the kernel source out of the boot images that are generated - and work around code that is critical to goodle. And then *poof* no money for SCO.
I saw a rumor once quite a bit back, that Compaq was thinking about their own OS because it might be cheaper for them to develop their own OS, than pay the royalties to MS to licence windows. Didn't happen - but with Linux, we are only talking about a few lines anyway (depending on who you talk too)
I tend to disagree - Been laid off twice in the past 3 years, both Startups changing their focus out from under me.
Yeah - I was unemployed both Nov 2001 AND Nov 2002, 3 months later I had two job offers, and many prospects in the pipeline. So in one of the WORST job markets in my memory (15 years experience) I have gotten 4 job offers.
Their big problem is that they apparently didn't maintain external contacts, current skills, and the ability to be flexible in a bad job market (I had to move - once for each job)
I have a EE, work in computer science for 12 years now... My understanding of ASIC design (from the few people that I talk to that actually do it) is that it looks like a simplified C syntax.
Yes the days of sneezing on a piece of paper - calling it a business plan, and getting rich are over. Now the tech industry requires hard work. If you are only in it for the money - go find something else. If this is what you like to do there are jobs around, there always will be, and you can make a nice living doing it (don't expect a garage full of 100K cars though, but a couple nice cars for you and your spouse are in order)
Degree doesn't matter, but experience and actually HAVING a piece of paper that you can wave around does matter.
And have her arrange the cables anyway she wants. All you care about is your stuff is connected - who cares what it looks like, so tell her what needs to run to what - and have her do it
Worked on a Xeon based embedded platform that could have 16 GB of Ram on the system board... You forgot that Intel provides a segmented architecture didn't you ?
By the way, the limit was from physical slots - 8 and a 2GByte DIMM memory limit, increase either of those and guess what.
Now each "process" on our box could only address 4 Gbyte of that memory, but that was a completely different question (and in fact limited by the libraries that were used - again a different story)
I remember these conversations when the 32 bit world came around - what do you mean I have to put 4 bytes into the processor. End result is that the code is a little larger, and a little slower - and Moore's law marches on and we don't even notice
Hell, MOST modern guns - a single shot knocks the victim and two of his close personal friends out of combat (think giving medical attention)
Delta Force is the only game I have personally played that gets this anywhere close to right (a single shot tends to take a victim out of combat)
Yes, you aren't dead with a single shot to the leg - but you are in pain, not participating in combat anymore, and in fact are taking one or two other squad members to bring you out of combat - I always loved the older FPSes that allowed you to run away after having a magazine of ammo into your chest... that is why I quit playing FPS - maybe I can go back now
Ok - if this is a two year, quarter hours... might be OK. However 9 hours credit for setting up a linux box ? Those three courses should go into a single class, same for MS (or get rid of both of those classes)
This ciriculum is a complete waste for what I would be looking to hire (a software engineer) - might be Ok for a network/system engineer
For CS - I would hope to see
Survey of computer languages - one of each type
Advanced computer language (pick one above>
Data structures (in a language not taught above)
Networking (not setting up - programming)
OS development (not do something with Linux either)
Compilers
Distributed Computing (not p2p - real app)
Project/Team class (solve a hard problem - program management)
Hardware design/CPU architecture/System level stuff
Technical writting
Technical Speaking
Algorithms
- now since I tend to hire networking people
Advanced Networking
Security/Cryptography
Advanced OS concepts
Hefty list, and not geared toward what your program is producing at all - but this is about what I would look for.
The end result is, what job do you want when you get out - looks like your ciriculum will produce system/network engineers, I am after people that have software engineer somewhere in their title... My program wouldn't train you to be able to do that job at all
From an article - 14.0 PSI is the approximate atmospheric pressure in Oklahoma City. You can go way below that in cities such as Denver.
The problem that they run into is that the atmospheric contaminant monitor was only rated down to 13.9 PSI... And trust me - you don't want to push engineering limits in an environment like space
Throw it away - many plans will give you a free phone when you purchase x minutes... Therefor the phones are effectively free, and there is almost no resale market
The scientists understand the real colors, the public (who funds it, after all) expects it to be red. They want red, we'll give 'em red. I'm not saying I agree with that, but I understand where they're coming from.
This is one of the things that bugs the hell out of me with food additives... People expect food to be a certain color, so we will add dyes and chemicals to make it that color. I have been much happier looking at food that is organic without all of those "interesting" chemicals. If you have never had organic peanut butter where the ingredient label reads 100% organic unblanched peanuts - you haven't had peanut butter (tastes sooooooo much better)
That said - there are a few things you have to get used too, the oil seperates so you have to mix it back in when you open the jar - and it is a little harder when kept in the refridgerator (remember no preservatives - so after it is openned into the fridge it goes).
Now why the hell do people expect a certain color - The reason is because these scientists (marketdriods, whatever) have told us to expect that color, and by god - they will do whatever it takes to make it that color. Reality is so much better
Gee, if you think about it you might come to the conclusion that this was deliberately done to dissuade reasonable people (ie, those don't want their emails to be harvested) from responding. I sure as hell will think twice before I respond to another one of their "request for comment" periods.
If I were worried about this I would setup a one time e-mail address for this, or not provide one at all. I wouldn't fully believe these things anyway - what if a person put in a comment, I am going to do something bad - don't think that e-mail/physical address would get out fast ?
What about FOIA requests - somebody really REALLY wants to know what the e-mail addresses are (your handy spammer) and files one - bets on there being all kinds of ANTI-Free speech stuff going around when the headline reads - Govt. refuses to give up information to organization requesting it through FOIA ?
So what you DID ignore was me also wondering why the heck they couldn't just filter the junk out of online posts ?
Or maybe the problem is with OCR input letters, having to have staff go through and edit each one for content, I can see that taking a long time - and being a big problem if for example side A tended to use the internet for input (and it going online immediately) and side B was using snail mail and comments being held up 2 months (beyond receiving the letter) because a staffer had to go through the OCR'd input and remove all personal references to address/phone numbers/e-mail addresses.
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Yes they do advertise... I see their ads in the WSJ on a very regular bassis. I think they are just not doing end consummer advertising - they are trying to get to the people with real money to buy their chips.
As for Science Fiction "sucking" I guess it tends to depend on what you are looking for. I read several kinds of books - Short, cheap, light, "sucky", science fiction when I have to get on a plane - more complicated, deeper, longer science fiction at home.
So I guess I will be the first to admit given the right circumstances I LOVE sci-fi that you claim "sucks". Frankly - I'd just assume loose myself in a quick starwars/star trek novel for the 2-3 hours on a plane than work - so it is great for me
That said - this is why evaluating balance sheets are quite difficult, especially for companies with strange debt (see Enron - by hiding their debt - they looked a lot stronger than they really were, remember if you don't see the debt - your enterprise value goes down)
I buy all the shares of Microsoft spending 288 Billion in the process (Ok - I would assume I'd have to pay a premium over this value - but for the sake of arguement lets make it an even 300 B)
When I am done - what do I have, all of Microsoft - plus a little over 50 Billion in cash that I can use to blow in a party - so I spent 300 Billion - but got 50 Billion back in change - Enterprise Value - 250 Billion
Now lets go buy GM 27 B Market cap (lets call it 30 Billion) but what do I get back 271 Billion in Debt that I will have to finance making the aquisition cost me 300 B.
Yes all of this is factored into the price of the stock - but when you deal with large numbers like this enterprise value does matter. This is the difference between market cap (what it would take to buy all the shares) and enterprise value (what it is really worth - due to balance sheet items)
Lets assume I want to buy Apple - all of it
First I buy all of the shares
Now I get access to their bank account - if the company has net debt (see Disney) I have to pay that off (either through loan payments, or through other means)
If the company has net cash (see Microsoft) I can take that money and do whatever I want with it
So Enterprise value of a company is
The cost of all of the shares of stock
Plus the debt of the company
Minus the cash/etc. of the company
End result is paying debt off from cash is a net wash on enterprise value because the cash is smaller, but the debt is as well.
End result is I prefer companies with smaller debt loads - it is easier to predict their earnings (every penny they make goes to profit, not debt service) however companies with large debt loads can have huge swings in earnings because the first 10 bucks they make go to debt service, and every penny beyond that goes to profit - so a small change in profits look a lot bigger (compare 10.02 to 10.01 dollars vs. 0.02 vs 0.01 as a percentage)
What would be very interesting is to see how these various OSes scale as you go from 1 to 4 - 16 -32 processors. Especially when you start throwing in things like NUMA (see 4-8 way opterons here)
2 Procs - comodity, lets see how the various distros do on 16-64 way servers
2 GB RAM ? why so limiting - lets get this up to 64 GB - or more
The disk system might not be too bad - but hardware Raid 5 would be more realistic
Of course what they are going to do is figure out which distro runs a FPS with the highest frame rate
I chose his OGI Faculty page - you can choose your own
Of course a vendors supplied compiler that doesn't have to even think about potential optimizations for another platform will outperform it. It is a testiment to the gcc folks that it is even close.
Just drive up and use the antenna on your laptop... If you need more than that get a cantenna. Why the hell would you want to mount the whole thing on your car ?
Well shame on you for installing that virus to run in WINE just so you can hit the sco.com website
It would take Goodle about 2 months to pull significant chunks of the kernel source out of the boot images that are generated - and work around code that is critical to goodle. And then *poof* no money for SCO.
I saw a rumor once quite a bit back, that Compaq was thinking about their own OS because it might be cheaper for them to develop their own OS, than pay the royalties to MS to licence windows. Didn't happen - but with Linux, we are only talking about a few lines anyway (depending on who you talk too)
Yeah - I was unemployed both Nov 2001 AND Nov 2002, 3 months later I had two job offers, and many prospects in the pipeline. So in one of the WORST job markets in my memory (15 years experience) I have gotten 4 job offers.
Their big problem is that they apparently didn't maintain external contacts, current skills, and the ability to be flexible in a bad job market (I had to move - once for each job)
Oh by the way - they will make it so it only runs on Gnome - with a certain clib, etc. etc. etc.
In otherwords your ability to actually run the software will be about 0.
Now you don't have access to a full C Standard Library - but you do for the most important parts of your job.
How would you describe what verilog looks like ?
Yes the days of sneezing on a piece of paper - calling it a business plan, and getting rich are over. Now the tech industry requires hard work. If you are only in it for the money - go find something else. If this is what you like to do there are jobs around, there always will be, and you can make a nice living doing it (don't expect a garage full of 100K cars though, but a couple nice cars for you and your spouse are in order)
Degree doesn't matter, but experience and actually HAVING a piece of paper that you can wave around does matter.
And have her arrange the cables anyway she wants. All you care about is your stuff is connected - who cares what it looks like, so tell her what needs to run to what - and have her do it
According to the WSJ that origionally reported the story from an annonymous tip (and no it isn't the bozo that got fired either)...
The vulnerability was keeping files in a shared area on a hard drive - not what I would call good planning, on any OS
Oh, and by the way - the system was setup under the previous chair of the judiciary commitee - a Democrat
By the way, the limit was from physical slots - 8 and a 2GByte DIMM memory limit, increase either of those and guess what.
Now each "process" on our box could only address 4 Gbyte of that memory, but that was a completely different question (and in fact limited by the libraries that were used - again a different story)
I remember these conversations when the 32 bit world came around - what do you mean I have to put 4 bytes into the processor. End result is that the code is a little larger, and a little slower - and Moore's law marches on and we don't even notice
Delta Force is the only game I have personally played that gets this anywhere close to right (a single shot tends to take a victim out of combat)
Yes, you aren't dead with a single shot to the leg - but you are in pain, not participating in combat anymore, and in fact are taking one or two other squad members to bring you out of combat - I always loved the older FPSes that allowed you to run away after having a magazine of ammo into your chest... that is why I quit playing FPS - maybe I can go back now
This ciriculum is a complete waste for what I would be looking to hire (a software engineer) - might be Ok for a network/system engineer
For CS - I would hope to see
Survey of computer languages - one of each type
Advanced computer language (pick one above>
Data structures (in a language not taught above)
Networking (not setting up - programming)
OS development (not do something with Linux either)
Compilers
Distributed Computing (not p2p - real app)
Project/Team class (solve a hard problem - program management)
Hardware design/CPU architecture/System level stuff
Technical writting
Technical Speaking
Algorithms
- now since I tend to hire networking people
Advanced Networking
Security/Cryptography
Advanced OS concepts
Hefty list, and not geared toward what your program is producing at all - but this is about what I would look for.
The end result is, what job do you want when you get out - looks like your ciriculum will produce system/network engineers, I am after people that have software engineer somewhere in their title... My program wouldn't train you to be able to do that job at all
The problem that they run into is that the atmospheric contaminant monitor was only rated down to 13.9 PSI... And trust me - you don't want to push engineering limits in an environment like space
Throw it away - many plans will give you a free phone when you purchase x minutes... Therefor the phones are effectively free, and there is almost no resale market
This is one of the things that bugs the hell out of me with food additives... People expect food to be a certain color, so we will add dyes and chemicals to make it that color. I have been much happier looking at food that is organic without all of those "interesting" chemicals. If you have never had organic peanut butter where the ingredient label reads 100% organic unblanched peanuts - you haven't had peanut butter (tastes sooooooo much better)
That said - there are a few things you have to get used too, the oil seperates so you have to mix it back in when you open the jar - and it is a little harder when kept in the refridgerator (remember no preservatives - so after it is openned into the fridge it goes).
Now why the hell do people expect a certain color - The reason is because these scientists (marketdriods, whatever) have told us to expect that color, and by god - they will do whatever it takes to make it that color. Reality is so much better
If I were worried about this I would setup a one time e-mail address for this, or not provide one at all. I wouldn't fully believe these things anyway - what if a person put in a comment, I am going to do something bad - don't think that e-mail/physical address would get out fast ?
What about FOIA requests - somebody really REALLY wants to know what the e-mail addresses are (your handy spammer) and files one - bets on there being all kinds of ANTI-Free speech stuff going around when the headline reads - Govt. refuses to give up information to organization requesting it through FOIA ?
So what you DID ignore was me also wondering why the heck they couldn't just filter the junk out of online posts ?
Or maybe the problem is with OCR input letters, having to have staff go through and edit each one for content, I can see that taking a long time - and being a big problem if for example side A tended to use the internet for input (and it going online immediately) and side B was using snail mail and comments being held up 2 months (beyond receiving the letter) because a staffer had to go through the OCR'd input and remove all personal references to address/phone numbers/e-mail addresses.