Aren't these the same people who tried to tell us that "comparative advantage" meant we should give up our manufacturing and all get degrees in high tech?
Many manufacturing jobs are cheaper overseas. Your point being? (ie: economist's point of view)
If you got your degree in `high tech' because of what you heard an economist say... well, you deserve what you get then.
If you're trully interested in computers and their capabilities (ie: a `computer scientist'), then your job cannot be outsourced.
The coding jobs will go away---but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of non-coding things to do (like design, research, etc., until we have computers walking and talking around the world there are still plenty of opportunities it IT---most of which pay off big time no matter where you do them).
It's about time people with computer science degrees realized that they weren't training to become a code monkey.
As far as I know, most book stores (at least in NYC) make quite a bit of money not from books, but from coffee and other extra thingies. The books and comfy reading areas bring customers in to get overpriced coffee. That cannot go online.
Now is they lower the price of books to that of amazon, they can break even on books---AND make a load of profits selling coffee and snacks.
What will be the penalty for going to the bathroom during a commercial break?
The video player will detect your absense (scan room for open eyes, etc.) and will pause the commercial for you until you're right back and ready to see it... and you'll have to see it since once a commercial starts, the only way to get back to normal programming is to have your open eyes in front of the player for 5 minutes.
Amm... I wonder if museum of the future will exhibit museum of the future which will exhibit museum of the future...
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Apple is still too stupid to realize that the money is in the software,
Amm... No. Even now, you can get FREE software to do pretty much everything anyone would want. No need to _buy_ anything. Once joe-average realizes this, Microsoft is screwed---it's only a matter of time, and they know it---that's why they're trying to get into all sorts of `service' related businesses.
There is only money in specialized custom software (or research applications). An `operating system' isn't special enough to cost anything.
You still can't (and never will) get FREE hardware though.
20,000 for human genes is also a very rough estimate---just another one of many wrong ones.
Imagine a genome as a computer program, and each `gene' being `an important piece'. Who is to say how many `important pices' there are in that program? It's anyone's guess. ie: gene isn't precisely defined. More like `some code that generally tends to stay together in most cases with few changes'.
...but, in games, folks aren't afraid of death. Ie: I woudln't object going on suicide run if my team wins in a _game_... but I wouldn't do that in real life.
Dawkins hinted at a way to increase average life-span... (and doing population control) is by progressively increasing `allowed' reproductive age.
ie: don't let anyone under 30 have any kids . Then after a few generations, raise that by some number of years. You slowly but surely can get to people living for a few hundred years without any major health problems. (while at the same time without overpopulating the earth). Although I'd imagine it would never happen in the real world...
The only shortcoming to SQL are the people who find it confusing. I'm serious. Most major database issues can be traced to people improperly designing or doing things (ie: generally lacking any sort of understanding when it comes to databases).
...if the rules state explicitly that you can't do it, then don't.
Most places have idiotic IT departments.
Apparently at one company (big financial company that anyone would recognize the name of) there was no policy of installing development tools such as Java SDK, Perl, GCC, etc., yet developers were somehow expected to create the software.
Now, everyone on the project just said "screw the IT" and setup a small network of computers that _we_ control (so we can install stuff) to get the job done. ``by the book'' we should've been fired---yet were were doing our job.
Just think... what if say tomorrow, google.com timed out on _every_ request. what would you do? You'd just go use Yahoo, or MSN, or some other search engine. The PageRank algorithm is very well known and documented---heck, even I implemented it for a limited dataset. You can be sure that if it works well for google, then Yahoo, and MSN search engines are doing it. (there are many more ideas other than pagerank that are better---pagerank is just simplest to implement)...on a less optimistic note, google just needs to mess up their public image a few times (every public company does evil things from time to time)---and Microsoft or Yahoo jump on that chance and hype their search engine... and before you know it, google's stock is in single digits, and everyone's using some other search engine.
Now, GM isn't just about cars. They're about a LOT more. I can't think of any single thing they can totally screw up to drive their stock price all the way down.
What if instead of drilling, you send one of those bunker type bombs (well, have the bomb go into the asteroid some distance before it explodes... possibly even a few internal explosions to drive the nuke deeper and deeper into the asteroid)---and then explode. Even if it doesn't "explode" the whole asteroid, I can imagine it would violently chip away a huge chunk of it that might push it off course by some distance. Do that a few times, and it might just deflect enough.
Yes. Also, Athlon 64s run much cooler (than the grandparent article said). Mine (3200+) averages 32C, and on cool nights 23C (!). Of course, that's using that CPUFREQ daemon (it runs at 1Ghz most of the time, unless it really needs the 2Ghz), and no overclocking (and standard heatsink).
I was thinking more along the lines of piping water up the mountain (possibly using direct mechanical spinning of the wind-turbine)... and when there is no wind, using that water (now moving down the mountain thanks to gravity) to spin those same turbines.
ie: create an artificial lake that would act as a "battery", and just pump water up when you need to store energy, and down when you want to use it up. (no rivers to block, etc., so no major environmental issues---this can be a closed system).
It leaves them with service contracts. Isn't that where everyone is moving anyway? Sun is beginning to understand (sorta like IBM in a way) that Software/Hardware are good... but consulting/support/service markets are where the future is---and the best way to get there is to be on their toes as far as open source is concerned.
Ie: There is no money in building software/hardware (now; there was plenty of money there a few years ago). But, there is plenty of money to be made using it---and supporting someone's use of it.
imbrace and extend... build a `new Internet' on top of the old... and when a critical mass of folks are using it, make the underlying `old Internet' servers just ignore all traffic that's not related to the `new Internet'. Problem of migration solved....then they can optimize their `new Internet' stacks, as to avoid having the old internet as the transport layer, etc.
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Aren't these the same people who tried to tell us that "comparative advantage" meant we should give up our manufacturing and all get degrees in high tech?
Many manufacturing jobs are cheaper overseas. Your point being? (ie: economist's point of view)
If you got your degree in `high tech' because of what you heard an economist say... well, you deserve what you get then.
If you're trully interested in computers and their capabilities (ie: a `computer scientist'), then your job cannot be outsourced.
The coding jobs will go away---but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of non-coding things to do (like design, research, etc., until we have computers walking and talking around the world there are still plenty of opportunities it IT---most of which pay off big time no matter where you do them).
It's about time people with computer science degrees realized that they weren't training to become a code monkey.
As far as I know, most book stores (at least in NYC) make quite a bit of money not from books, but from coffee and other extra thingies. The books and comfy reading areas bring customers in to get overpriced coffee. That cannot go online.
Now is they lower the price of books to that of amazon, they can break even on books---AND make a load of profits selling coffee and snacks.
What will be the penalty for going to the bathroom during a commercial break?
The video player will detect your absense (scan room for open eyes, etc.) and will pause the commercial for you until you're right back and ready to see it... and you'll have to see it since once a commercial starts, the only way to get back to normal programming is to have your open eyes in front of the player for 5 minutes.
Amm... I wonder if museum of the future will exhibit museum of the future which will exhibit museum of the future...
Apple is still too stupid to realize that the money is in the software,
Amm... No. Even now, you can get FREE software to do pretty much everything anyone would want. No need to _buy_ anything. Once joe-average realizes this, Microsoft is screwed---it's only a matter of time, and they know it---that's why they're trying to get into all sorts of `service' related businesses.
There is only money in specialized custom software (or research applications). An `operating system' isn't special enough to cost anything.
You still can't (and never will) get FREE hardware though.
A 3 wheeled robot can also turn in place. It depends on how the wheels are arranged---not on how many there are.
20,000 for human genes is also a very rough estimate---just another one of many wrong ones.
Imagine a genome as a computer program, and each `gene' being `an important piece'. Who is to say how many `important pices' there are in that program? It's anyone's guess. ie: gene isn't precisely defined. More like `some code that generally tends to stay together in most cases with few changes'.
...but, in games, folks aren't afraid of death. Ie: I woudln't object going on suicide run if my team wins in a _game_... but I wouldn't do that in real life.
/me recommends Snow Crash as the first book (then Cryptonomicon)---the Boroque Cycle tends to get a bit looooong after a very short while.
Rumor was the last product he actually worked on was a version of BASIC in the 80's.
I heard a rumor that DOS 3 was the last project that contained any of his code.
Dawkins hinted at a way to increase average life-span... (and doing population control) is by progressively increasing `allowed' reproductive age.
ie: don't let anyone under 30 have any kids . Then after a few generations, raise that by some number of years. You slowly but surely can get to people living for a few hundred years without any major health problems. (while at the same time without overpopulating the earth). Although I'd imagine it would never happen in the real world...
The only shortcoming to SQL are the people who find it confusing. I'm serious. Most major database issues can be traced to people improperly designing or doing things (ie: generally lacking any sort of understanding when it comes to databases).
...if the rules state explicitly that you can't do it, then don't.
Most places have idiotic IT departments.
Apparently at one company (big financial company that anyone would recognize the name of) there was no policy of installing development tools such as Java SDK, Perl, GCC, etc., yet developers were somehow expected to create the software.
Now, everyone on the project just said "screw the IT" and setup a small network of computers that _we_ control (so we can install stuff) to get the job done. ``by the book'' we should've been fired---yet were were doing our job.
Just think... what if say tomorrow, google.com timed out on _every_ request. what would you do? You'd just go use Yahoo, or MSN, or some other search engine. The PageRank algorithm is very well known and documented---heck, even I implemented it for a limited dataset. You can be sure that if it works well for google, then Yahoo, and MSN search engines are doing it. (there are many more ideas other than pagerank that are better---pagerank is just simplest to implement) ...on a less optimistic note, google just needs to mess up their public image a few times (every public company does evil things from time to time)---and Microsoft or Yahoo jump on that chance and hype their search engine... and before you know it, google's stock is in single digits, and everyone's using some other search engine.
Now, GM isn't just about cars. They're about a LOT more. I can't think of any single thing they can totally screw up to drive their stock price all the way down.
money has to have anonymous feature. credit-cards (nor bar-codes) wouldn't be anonymous.
people will start hoarding gold, etc., and not use official `money' if they couldn't make anonymous transactions.
It's amazing that they're selling money for more than money is worth! ie: the only place on the planet that sells you $32 for $50 :-)
I'd actually pay a few bucks for delivery---but paying more for money than money is worth... amm... that seems tooo strange.
...Isn't that huge-dinosaur-killing volcano somewhere around Ellowstone?
What about that "drilling" an asteroid movie?
What if instead of drilling, you send one of those bunker type bombs (well, have the bomb go into the asteroid some distance before it explodes... possibly even a few internal explosions to drive the nuke deeper and deeper into the asteroid)---and then explode. Even if it doesn't "explode" the whole asteroid, I can imagine it would violently chip away a huge chunk of it that might push it off course by some distance. Do that a few times, and it might just deflect enough.
Just wondering...
Yes. Also, Athlon 64s run much cooler (than the grandparent article said). Mine (3200+) averages 32C, and on cool nights 23C (!). Of course, that's using that CPUFREQ daemon (it runs at 1Ghz most of the time, unless it really needs the 2Ghz), and no overclocking (and standard heatsink).
...does it work as a USB Drive when you plug it in? Does it require that stupid iRiver Manager software to be installed?
/me is quite happy with my $500 19" Neovo display. So happy in fact, that I got 2 of them :-)
I'd rather have _all_ my monitors be cheap LCDs than mess with CRTs. Still 1 CRT left though.
Beh, You're 2 days early! Talk Like A Pirate Day
I was thinking more along the lines of piping water up the mountain (possibly using direct mechanical spinning of the wind-turbine)... and when there is no wind, using that water (now moving down the mountain thanks to gravity) to spin those same turbines.
ie: create an artificial lake that would act as a "battery", and just pump water up when you need to store energy, and down when you want to use it up. (no rivers to block, etc., so no major environmental issues---this can be a closed system).
It leaves them with service contracts. Isn't that where everyone is moving anyway? Sun is beginning to understand (sorta like IBM in a way) that Software/Hardware are good... but consulting/support/service markets are where the future is---and the best way to get there is to be on their toes as far as open source is concerned.
Ie: There is no money in building software/hardware (now; there was plenty of money there a few years ago). But, there is plenty of money to be made using it---and supporting someone's use of it.
imbrace and extend... build a `new Internet' on top of the old... and when a critical mass of folks are using it, make the underlying `old Internet' servers just ignore all traffic that's not related to the `new Internet'. Problem of migration solved. ...then they can optimize their `new Internet' stacks, as to avoid having the old internet as the transport layer, etc.