My father had a failed hard drive many years ago and we sent it to Drivesavers. To say the least, I was not impressed. Not only did they manage only to recover 1/100 of his important powerpoint presentations and research, but they used Norton Utilities to do it. I know this because a few months later I bought Norton Utilities (Mac) and only the types of files recoverable from Norton were present. Also, the icons in the resource fork of each file had the exact same (some non-standard) icons for things like.doc,.pdf, etc. It was against the Norton Utilities EULA to use it for commercial purposes like these guys did. He was using a PowerBook and Mac OS X so maybe they didn't know what to do at the time.
Needless to say, I was disappointed with the experience and in hindsight we should have never spent several thousand dollars to get almost nothing back.
Now I have my dad's computer hooked up to an external hard drive using Time Machine. Unless our house burns down, which would be far more catastrophic than a hard disk failure, I don't anticipate having ever to do that again.
Sorry if this comes off as overly negative, but as this article essentially an advertisement and people need to know customer experiences.
I wouldn't say this is the 4th basic circuit element- that is quite a stretch.
Basically you have Ohm's law which is v =Ri. There is a component for each variable: Capacitors for voltage, inductors for current, resistors for resistance. It is all there, in nice little differential equations.
Yes, this is a great discovery. But please stop with the sensationalist headlines. This is getting out of hand.
The problem with this is someone who has a lot of money can essentially "buy" a lot of votes. I know it's not exactly a popular thing to say, but there are certain very wealthy socialists who will try to buy the next presidential election. There are all kinds of people who would buy the presidential election if they could- new finance laws make this possible. If all the adds gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling when I watched them I would not have a problem with people spending tons of money on them.
However, there are people who, despite Obama's and McCain's wishes, will run a hugely negative campaign and it's not going to be pretty. It demeans the American people, treating us like cattle. I'd rather keep the rich people to a minimum or at least make their jobs shuffling funds around more difficult.
I have a very strong belief that no one should be able to buy their way into office, even indirectly. McCain shot himself in the leg with his campaign finance bill he helped pass. Guess he wasn't thinking far enough ahead...
Personally I think it would be funny if Google and Yahoo got some sort of deal together like TFA suggests might happen. If you can imagine how mad Balmer would get after a top programmer leaves, just imagine what would happen if Yahoo tied itself to Google. He'd be freakin foaming at the mouth and no chair in the Seattle area would be safe from him.
The recording industry can blame itself for its crappy music. People don't want to buy their music because all the music that comes out now is a terrible combination of Pop, Funk, and Rap.
Just think of how well Britney Spears was doing at that time, then look now. That is the look of the recoding industry.
Dude, you don't have to like Cheney of Bush. In fact you can hate them to their cores. But don't say "One can only wish." implying that death or health trouble would be a good thing.
You become as bad as they are when you say that, so don't do it.
It's not cool to say that about anyone.
Summary mentions: What methods have other people used to find the truly elite?
Along with what you said:
Job sites are a bad place to go. I looked at the discussion forums on Dice.com one time and from all the complaining I knew I wasn't going to find anything good there.
Referrals are really the way to go. There are so many people in this world who can, given a normal task, write a program for it. However, there are very few people who can actually think up a new project from start to completion, lead everyone through the project, and help push it through management. It takes a lot of confidence and ability to do that.
Something I've noticed is that the best programmers tend not to think of programming as just a big math problem that they need to solve- they consider what they do to be an art. Having meaningful assignments is crucial to attracting and keeping new people. The best programmers want to be a part of something bigger than themselves and are great enablers for your other employees. Their good character rubs off on everyone else and creates a really positive working environment. Make sure you look for people who are fairly optimistic and upbeat.
Offering money will only get you so far. You have to offer good projects to expect people to want to work for you. If you can make a fulfilling work environment for the best you are halfway there. The great programmers can go anywhere, and it should be considered a privilege if they decide to stay with you. Let them know they are appreciated in this way.
If the summary is correct then there is 2W inside a 5mm x 5mm area (plus some height). This is a lot of power for that amount of space. (i.e. touch it and you get a really severe burn.)
I'd be interested to see if they can get any products to use this chip that can be plastic.
Agreed. "Engineer better tools for scientific discovery" and a few others are quite vague. Also, I would like to note that a lot of these challenges seem to be chemistry/bioinformatics-based. There's really not too much for mechanical, electrical, or structural engineers. I would like to see some things involving robotics outside of computational perception, which is a CS field.
There's definitely a trend in the list towards materials and chemical engineering applications (which makes sense given the make-up of the group) , which is ok provided not everything involves that. How about build a car that doesn't rely on gasoline and uses a much cleaner fuel? Robots with simple abilities like helping doctors, developing more efficient power supplies to increase available energy by 20%.
I know their focus is on Engineering challenges that can better quality of life for humans rather than technologies designed to explore space, and making big airplanes, but can we get a little more diversity in these topics? Reducing factory emissions and finding more efficient ways to control our waste seem to be very worthwhile causes. Less smog in Los Angeles and less trash in Italy/places where there is currently no where to put waste. How about designing a new communications structure and getting most of Asia and Africa hooked into the Internet? There are so many thing that aren't listed in this report that it makes me wonder how diverse the panel making these choices was.
There was a tag listed for this article: menageatrois.
A "menage a trois" is literally a "household of three" or a "family of three."
The only rude meaning in it is created when Americans (incorrectly) think this is French for a threesome. "Menage a trois" as a idiomatic term is purely American-made- it means absoltely nothing of the sort anywhere else.
I'm theologically on the side of the scientists on all these issues, but I cannot fault the pope's conduct here. Many scientists are pushing atheism as the new religion and they seem to want to force everyone to accept it. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they should not be heard- that has never been a good reason to silence someone. Silencing is the way of Hilter, Stalin, and others. It's exactly what the church did centuries ago to scientists and now its redeveloping on the other side of the coin. Just because religion isn't considered a pure science doesn't mean that it has intrinsic value in its morals/teachings/beliefs.
I would hope that people see that this University is not representative of the broader intellectual community.
Time always travels forward. It cannot travel backward. Imagine a car engine that takes in air and gas to produce energy. The O2 gets converted to CO2 and goes out the tailpipe of the car into the atmosphere. You can't take that exhaust, put it back through the tail pipe, into the engine, and do some kind of reverse combustion back to O2 and gas. Time is completely analogous to this car.
Even though the universe is constantly expanding, which might make you think that time stretches, Einstein has accounted for this. If you take a snapshot of the speed of light 1000 years ago and compare it to a snapshot of the speed of light now, they are exactly the same. It's like no matter how fast you run and chase something, you are still 3x10^8m/s away from the speed of light. That's Special Relativity in a nutshell.
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But do they target just your children, or your wife too?
I hear that. On a large project last summer I had one of those "can we add feature x and y and z" jobs. I was only there for the summer (as an intern in software engineering) and the code, to my knowledge, never got finished. It was an web-based administrative tool for Active Directory and MS Exchange. I know I know. That's one of the things they knew they wanted.
I ended up figuring out how to make the code smaller, more elegant, and more powerful and I ended up redoing three pages to make all my code perty. Then I got a "stop development" message when their company's VPN was connected to their China office. It turns out accounts were being locked out systematically, a-z down the tree. They thought it was me.
Actually it was an issue with the firewall/router in China set to accept *.* for ip addresses (that is not meant to be an emoticon, although as an emoticon it would describe many things about this problem). It cost the company two weeks of time getting it resolved, it pushed my project back, and we were unable to finish documenting the code and its API's, much less installing it on a server. They were all windows-based- I used things like Java, PHP, MySQL, etc. to interface with the Active Directory anyway because I do not program VB and I do not deal with COM objects. It also helped that I was the only Engineer working on the project and I like to Do The Right Thing(tm).
That was on tangent, but the comment is not good without the story. (How can an IT department do THAT? And for two weeks?!) Because feature x and feature y and feature z where added to the code base there was no time for me to document the API or much of the program before I was back off to school.
Steve probably wants to be able to let users who purchase iTunes videos to put them on DVD's for viewing on TV. That seems like a better argument than releasing an iTunes compatible version on their DVD's- a thing that would take up more space (the movies are not tiny) on the DVD. This would diminish the amount of content movie studios could add on their own. Simply put, it's in Jobs' best interest to pry away at the DRM that disables the functionality he wants.
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Needless to say, I was disappointed with the experience and in hindsight we should have never spent several thousand dollars to get almost nothing back.
Now I have my dad's computer hooked up to an external hard drive using Time Machine. Unless our house burns down, which would be far more catastrophic than a hard disk failure, I don't anticipate having ever to do that again.
Sorry if this comes off as overly negative, but as this article essentially an advertisement and people need to know customer experiences.
Boobs? You must be confused with "Heavy Metal."
Basically you have Ohm's law which is v =Ri. There is a component for each variable: Capacitors for voltage, inductors for current, resistors for resistance. It is all there, in nice little differential equations.
Yes, this is a great discovery. But please stop with the sensationalist headlines. This is getting out of hand.
Yes, because Wikipedia has always been known to be more accurate for this type of data than any other source.
However, there are people who, despite Obama's and McCain's wishes, will run a hugely negative campaign and it's not going to be pretty. It demeans the American people, treating us like cattle. I'd rather keep the rich people to a minimum or at least make their jobs shuffling funds around more difficult.
I have a very strong belief that no one should be able to buy their way into office, even indirectly. McCain shot himself in the leg with his campaign finance bill he helped pass. Guess he wasn't thinking far enough ahead...
Personally I think it would be funny if Google and Yahoo got some sort of deal together like TFA suggests might happen. If you can imagine how mad Balmer would get after a top programmer leaves, just imagine what would happen if Yahoo tied itself to Google. He'd be freakin foaming at the mouth and no chair in the Seattle area would be safe from him.
Just think of how well Britney Spears was doing at that time, then look now. That is the look of the recoding industry.
You will be assimilated.
Gauss' law proves the absence of magnetic monopoles. Until they can find a problem with Maxwell's equations, they've got no case.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/electric/maxeq2.html
You become as bad as they are when you say that, so don't do it.
It's not cool to say that about anyone.
It is probably a coincidence because he is very likely French Canadian (Quebecois).
Along with what you said:
Job sites are a bad place to go. I looked at the discussion forums on Dice.com one time and from all the complaining I knew I wasn't going to find anything good there.
Referrals are really the way to go. There are so many people in this world who can, given a normal task, write a program for it. However, there are very few people who can actually think up a new project from start to completion, lead everyone through the project, and help push it through management. It takes a lot of confidence and ability to do that.
Something I've noticed is that the best programmers tend not to think of programming as just a big math problem that they need to solve- they consider what they do to be an art. Having meaningful assignments is crucial to attracting and keeping new people. The best programmers want to be a part of something bigger than themselves and are great enablers for your other employees. Their good character rubs off on everyone else and creates a really positive working environment. Make sure you look for people who are fairly optimistic and upbeat.
Offering money will only get you so far. You have to offer good projects to expect people to want to work for you. If you can make a fulfilling work environment for the best you are halfway there. The great programmers can go anywhere, and it should be considered a privilege if they decide to stay with you. Let them know they are appreciated in this way.
I'd be interested to see if they can get any products to use this chip that can be plastic.
There's definitely a trend in the list towards materials and chemical engineering applications (which makes sense given the make-up of the group) , which is ok provided not everything involves that. How about build a car that doesn't rely on gasoline and uses a much cleaner fuel? Robots with simple abilities like helping doctors, developing more efficient power supplies to increase available energy by 20%.
I know their focus is on Engineering challenges that can better quality of life for humans rather than technologies designed to explore space, and making big airplanes, but can we get a little more diversity in these topics? Reducing factory emissions and finding more efficient ways to control our waste seem to be very worthwhile causes. Less smog in Los Angeles and less trash in Italy/places where there is currently no where to put waste. How about designing a new communications structure and getting most of Asia and Africa hooked into the Internet? There are so many thing that aren't listed in this report that it makes me wonder how diverse the panel making these choices was.
I thought that was a rather nice way to put it.
Please, it's called assimilation. Don't make the collective angry.
A "menage a trois" is literally a "household of three" or a "family of three."
The only rude meaning in it is created when Americans (incorrectly) think this is French for a threesome. "Menage a trois" as a idiomatic term is purely American-made- it means absoltely nothing of the sort anywhere else.
I would hope that people see that this University is not representative of the broader intellectual community.
WE DO NOT!!!
Even though the universe is constantly expanding, which might make you think that time stretches, Einstein has accounted for this. If you take a snapshot of the speed of light 1000 years ago and compare it to a snapshot of the speed of light now, they are exactly the same. It's like no matter how fast you run and chase something, you are still 3x10^8m/s away from the speed of light. That's Special Relativity in a nutshell.
But do they target just your children, or your wife too?
I agree with you. People tend to lose the most brain cells in the US when they turn 21.
the client doesn't always know what he wants
I hear that. On a large project last summer I had one of those "can we add feature x and y and z" jobs. I was only there for the summer (as an intern in software engineering) and the code, to my knowledge, never got finished. It was an web-based administrative tool for Active Directory and MS Exchange. I know I know. That's one of the things they knew they wanted.
I ended up figuring out how to make the code smaller, more elegant, and more powerful and I ended up redoing three pages to make all my code perty. Then I got a "stop development" message when their company's VPN was connected to their China office. It turns out accounts were being locked out systematically, a-z down the tree. They thought it was me.
Actually it was an issue with the firewall/router in China set to accept *.* for ip addresses (that is not meant to be an emoticon, although as an emoticon it would describe many things about this problem). It cost the company two weeks of time getting it resolved, it pushed my project back, and we were unable to finish documenting the code and its API's, much less installing it on a server. They were all windows-based- I used things like Java, PHP, MySQL, etc. to interface with the Active Directory anyway because I do not program VB and I do not deal with COM objects. It also helped that I was the only Engineer working on the project and I like to Do The Right Thing(tm).
That was on tangent, but the comment is not good without the story. (How can an IT department do THAT? And for two weeks?!) Because feature x and feature y and feature z where added to the code base there was no time for me to document the API or much of the program before I was back off to school.
Steve probably wants to be able to let users who purchase iTunes videos to put them on DVD's for viewing on TV.
That seems like a better argument than releasing an iTunes compatible version on their DVD's- a thing that would take up more space (the movies are not tiny) on the DVD. This would diminish the amount of content movie studios could add on their own.
Simply put, it's in Jobs' best interest to pry away at the DRM that disables the functionality he wants.