If you're going to pay thousands of dollars to go to Uni, you want to know that you'll get value for money in the form of a degree. Knowledge doesn't necessarily get you a high paying job, or keep your wealthy and/or sucessful parents happy, a degree can.
You'd be surprised how many students don't realize this.
I mean, like read a -book- (that's not required for a course)?
I found that a great many folks (students, and in general) simply don't read anything that's outside of e/mail. That just means that, for the most part, they're -way- less `literate' than folks who do read books (for entertainment value).
And yes, `useless' novels do increase your literacy.
One would argue that the true IT professionals are in business of making easy things seem very complicated (and taking in more billable hours at it).
Sure, it might've been a few hour job, but... well... that doesn't really help IBM and their billing. I was once stupid enough to finish something in 1 day (when the `assumption' was that it would take a week...)---guess who got many more contracts though that consulting firm after that??? It certainly wasn't me, the fast worker; one who doesn't bill a lot.
How long would a 1 hour (billable per hour) job take you?
It's all about money; and the ugly truth is that if you don't stretch out the time, there just isn't enough -useful- (worthwhile for the corp) work out there. Most folks just browse the web all day long... and get paid for it. If you try to be a hero (like be productive), you get punnished for it; at least in the hourly contracting business.
They can't do that. One of the points of rebates is so they can control -when- they give you your money back (some quarters, it may be best for them to show a `loss', others a higher than average profit).
The reason it might take 3 whole months for your rebate to arrive, is because timings of those things are in around 3 months time-ranges.
Also, don't forget interest on the money.
So, best of both worlds, they can claim a loss when it's convinient for them (and make money on interest in the mean time), and you get some money back eventualy.
(otherwise, you'd get nutn back, and they'd waste the money on some corp crap, like an extra jet for the CEO).
Although they could make it more convinient, and not have the `rebate' replace a `sale', as it often does now a days.
One of the problems is that if the candidate `requires' training, then they're not a good candidate to begin with. Linux isn't some proprietary system that you don't expect anyone to `know'---it's something that's out there.
A good candidate would've been curious about it long before the interview (or job), and likely would've learned it their own. If they weren't curious about it---or didn't bother learning it on their own when they had the chance, that says something about their attitude towards IT.
If you do end up hiring such a person, you're only setting yourself up to have'em `retrained' every 2 years, instead of having them pick things up as they go.
5000 Opterons? It makes sense to put those near power plants / ice bergs. That's at least 500 kW of heat dissipation.
Obviously, they're going to use a small nuclear reactor, and "drop" these things to the bottom the ocean (connected via fiber to the mainland).
With so many processors, hard-drives, parts, etc., they can allow them to just die over the lifetime without any servicing; when 60% of the devices are dead, the whole thing would likely be outdated anyway, then they can either: ignore it, or contract someone to fish it out of the ocean for cleanup.
Sure, it might've taken 10 hours, but I doubt it was a mental challenge (probably way easier than the Windows one). Also, computer time is virtually free (the admin could go off do some other work).
Call me selfish, but if I create $100k worth of software, I better be paid $100k.
What you're saying is that programmers won't mind making multi-billion dollar software and get paid peanuts for it. (granted, that's how open source works right now... but then that's why there are still corporate jobs where programmers -do- get paid for their work).
Also, you're ignoring the fact that most open source projects exist because folks are -interested- in them. If it was a "job" (as in, one that you don't really -want- but -have- to do), nobody would be doing it! It's great to get paid for doing what you like doing anyway, but when it becomes something that you don't particularly enjoy, you better be paid well or you'll just quit.
Also, -most- software out there isn't very "enjoyable" to create.
Funny thing about the human genome project is that they'll never be done. I'd imagine that every few years they'll have announcements saying "we're completed the hgp, etc.", but in truth, they may only be approaching 99.9% done.
It's really one of those things where 95% of the work is relatively easy (well, `several year's worth of work'), and the other 5% are what takes the rest of the century.
(there's also the question of -understanding- it as opposed to just writing it out to a file; and I'm sure that will take a -while-).
I think that's the point behind 300 years. It will take them this long to 1) index everything that's there, and be able to keep up with newly created information.
(ie: in one of their papers they said something along the lines that the rate at which humans can produce information isn't growing as fast as their ability to index it, and eventually they'll be able to keep up with the rate of all information everyone on the planet produces. I guess that's where that 300 years comes in. I'd imagine it would take them -way- less time to index everything that's there right now.)
In any case, 300 years is just a big guesswork number.
...I had a PDF of the NYC map on my PDA for the last five years or so. Kinda stupid of them to protest that you can't put it on iPods, but then again, it's their stuff.
As far as I know, MTA isn't a public agency. They're just a corp that has a monopoly on transportation. (ie: whatever they produce is certainly not public---and no, taxes don't pay for it [although they may subsidize some of it]).
Slashdot Mirror
Ever try and write an enterprise level application, even a web application, in perl?
What about Slashdot?
It's the dot-com again. Ten years ago, you could easily get a $50k/year job (a lot for the time) creating web pages (basic HTML, nothing fancy).
.NET gui/web development. So much for the times, eh?
:-)
Now it seems you can get $80k/year doing brainless
On the other hand (not mentioned in article), Perl/C/UNIX combination seem to get twice that (ahh... supply/demand
If you're going to pay thousands of dollars to go to Uni, you want to know that you'll get value for money in the form of a degree. Knowledge doesn't necessarily get you a high paying job, or keep your wealthy and/or sucessful parents happy, a degree can.
You'd be surprised how many students don't realize this.
Should we suppose that the remaining 10% died a horrible, cold death?
Would be somewhat funny if they only tested it on 1. (hmm... it was `ok'; sort of... maybe 90% ok).
I mean, like read a -book- (that's not required for a course)?
I found that a great many folks (students, and in general) simply don't read anything that's outside of e/mail. That just means that, for the most part, they're -way- less `literate' than folks who do read books (for entertainment value).
And yes, `useless' novels do increase your literacy.
Selling coca-cola and letting the gov know who sent a particular email are very different things.
Coca-cola or McDonalds didn't control -information- on citizens; they had -way- less power. No `bad' (besides colesterol and diabetes) came of them.
One would argue that the true IT professionals are in business of making easy things seem very complicated (and taking in more billable hours at it).
Sure, it might've been a few hour job, but... well... that doesn't really help IBM and their billing. I was once stupid enough to finish something in 1 day (when the `assumption' was that it would take a week...)---guess who got many more contracts though that consulting firm after that??? It certainly wasn't me, the fast worker; one who doesn't bill a lot.
How long would a 1 hour (billable per hour) job take you?
It's all about money; and the ugly truth is that if you don't stretch out the time, there just isn't enough -useful- (worthwhile for the corp) work out there. Most folks just browse the web all day long... and get paid for it. If you try to be a hero (like be productive), you get punnished for it; at least in the hourly contracting business.
The permafrost is melting worldwide.
:-)
But... think of all the new farmland that might create
So in most climates we'd be at the top of the food chain, or close.
I agree.
What about all them little things we can't see? I'd say we slowly but surely losing that battle.
Yes, and Apple has been near its 52-week high for about two and a half years and pushing their all-time-high for about a year.
...it's like it's 1996 all over again!
OMG, it will rise forever. Better get into this limitless rise right now.
So... you're saying Dell is undervalued... Hmm... well then, time to run off and buy more of them shares...
I guess one needs a thicker skin...
...surely there has to be someone that, in the past 12 months, has afected the news more than he has.
It's been a slow year.
...do you honestly think local governments are going to think very highly of a device that will deny it such a substantial source of revenue?
What if the device also automatically applied the ticket price (and points) along with the speed decrease?
...just reduce the price at the cash register
They can't do that. One of the points of rebates is so they can control -when- they give you your money back (some quarters, it may be best for them to show a `loss', others a higher than average profit).
The reason it might take 3 whole months for your rebate to arrive, is because timings of those things are in around 3 months time-ranges.
Also, don't forget interest on the money.
So, best of both worlds, they can claim a loss when it's convinient for them (and make money on interest in the mean time), and you get some money back eventualy.
(otherwise, you'd get nutn back, and they'd waste the money on some corp crap, like an extra jet for the CEO).
Although they could make it more convinient, and not have the `rebate' replace a `sale', as it often does now a days.
One of the problems is that if the candidate `requires' training, then they're not a good candidate to begin with. Linux isn't some proprietary system that you don't expect anyone to `know'---it's something that's out there.
A good candidate would've been curious about it long before the interview (or job), and likely would've learned it their own. If they weren't curious about it---or didn't bother learning it on their own when they had the chance, that says something about their attitude towards IT.
If you do end up hiring such a person, you're only setting yourself up to have'em `retrained' every 2 years, instead of having them pick things up as they go.
5000 Opterons? It makes sense to put those near power plants / ice bergs. That's at least 500 kW of heat dissipation.
Obviously, they're going to use a small nuclear reactor, and "drop" these things to the bottom the ocean (connected via fiber to the mainland).
With so many processors, hard-drives, parts, etc., they can allow them to just die over the lifetime without any servicing; when 60% of the devices are dead, the whole thing would likely be outdated anyway, then they can either: ignore it, or contract someone to fish it out of the ocean for cleanup.
Meh.
He probably just ran: emerge glibc world
Sure, it might've taken 10 hours, but I doubt it was a mental challenge (probably way easier than the Windows one). Also, computer time is virtually free (the admin could go off do some other work).
Call me selfish, but if I create $100k worth of software, I better be paid $100k.
What you're saying is that programmers won't mind making multi-billion dollar software and get paid peanuts for it. (granted, that's how open source works right now... but then that's why there are still corporate jobs where programmers -do- get paid for their work).
Also, you're ignoring the fact that most open source projects exist because folks are -interested- in them. If it was a "job" (as in, one that you don't really -want- but -have- to do), nobody would be doing it! It's great to get paid for doing what you like doing anyway, but when it becomes something that you don't particularly enjoy, you better be paid well or you'll just quit.
Also, -most- software out there isn't very "enjoyable" to create.
Funny thing about the human genome project is that they'll never be done. I'd imagine that every few years they'll have announcements saying "we're completed the hgp, etc.", but in truth, they may only be approaching 99.9% done.
It's really one of those things where 95% of the work is relatively easy (well, `several year's worth of work'), and the other 5% are what takes the rest of the century.
(there's also the question of -understanding- it as opposed to just writing it out to a file; and I'm sure that will take a -while-).
I think that's the point behind 300 years. It will take them this long to 1) index everything that's there, and be able to keep up with newly created information.
(ie: in one of their papers they said something along the lines that the rate at which humans can produce information isn't growing as fast as their ability to index it, and eventually they'll be able to keep up with the rate of all information everyone on the planet produces. I guess that's where that 300 years comes in. I'd imagine it would take them -way- less time to index everything that's there right now.)
In any case, 300 years is just a big guesswork number.
by 2020... we'll all have flying cars!
...I had a PDF of the NYC map on my PDA for the last five years or so. Kinda stupid of them to protest that you can't put it on iPods, but then again, it's their stuff.
As far as I know, MTA isn't a public agency. They're just a corp that has a monopoly on transportation. (ie: whatever they produce is certainly not public---and no, taxes don't pay for it [although they may subsidize some of it]).
Not to mention the flash based iRiver (ifp-799) can run for 40 hours on a single AA battery (and -way- longer than that with a Energizer Lithium AA).