Actually having looked in NYC and Boston, the most expensive studio apartment I have seen yet has been less than $2k a month including all bills. That's still $25k a year just on housing, but isn't $100k a year.
I still agree with your point, though. And I've looked in Austin, too - it isn't the garden of $60k a year positions for entry level software engineers that the GP suggests.
$30k a year gross : -7.5% FICA (-2250) -5% 401(k) (-1500) -15% IRS (-4500) -$300 a month for student loans (using your example) (-3600) =$18k a year take home = $1,500 a month to live on.
Rent on a 700sf apartment, 1br/1ba, in just about anywhere that has tech jobs nearby (California, Boston area, etc) will run you $800 a month easy. $700 a month for a complete dive in a crack infested neighborhood. Electricity / heat / water - $100 / month (being conservative). Cable (internet / maybe also tv) - $60 / month. Phone (cell or land-line) - $40 a month Car insurance for a young single man - $100 / month I'm going to assume a car that runs but is older (no payment). Maintenance ($50/mo), gas ($100/mo) : $150 / month
That leaves $350 a month. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on $10 a day is not unreasonable, for a healthy diet including eggs, bread, milk, coffee, meat, cheese - all the things a software engineer eats. That leaves $50 a month for : clothing (for working in an office setting) laundry (once a month, whether it needs it or not) ethanol (beer / liquor) music hardware upgrades (have to keep current) WoW subscription furnishing your home going on dates chocolate and emergencies.
I'm not saying it can't be done - I've lived on less (was only making $25k a year right out of college) - I'm just saying it isn't the kind of life that you might expect for a degreed professional software engineer.
For comparison, assuming instead had you gone into the military as a boot-camp recruit (E1) and did five years (four years instead of college, plus you would be in your fifth year) and made E5 (not difficult, it is like a second class or something, still a nobody with no authority or responsibility) according to the pay charts found here in San Diego you would be making the equiv of about $50.5k a year, including housing and subsistance pay (but not including combat pay, no matter how rough things get in San Diego.) And no student loans, which is another $3,600 a year difference, bringing it up to an effective $54k a year. And no medical costs. And after less than 30 years you can retire at 100% of your base salary (that would mean retiring at 45 with a lifetime income of about $55k a year, plus or minus depending on how far up the food chain you made it.) As someone going on 40, the thought of being able to retire in five years at 100% of my base salary sounds really, really good right about now. A LOT better than waiting until I'm 65 or 68 or whatever they cranked it up to recently for the regular world.
And we keep hearing how 'under paid' the military enlisted are... so there's the comparison. Software engineering after five years = way below the curve set by the Military. Possibly behind the curve for life, and that's before we consider going in as an officer (requires college, etc.) After only a single promotion with 3 years in the service, an O2 in the Navy stationed in San Diego makes the equiv of $73.5k a year. Makes what they are offering software engineers with three years experience look like chicken-feed, and again - we keep hearing how we 'under-pay' the military.
in Texas teachers make $38-40K to start for nine months of work $40k to start? For nine months of work? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... be a science or math teacher!
You are so close to stumbling onto the answer, the door through which Linux must walk before it takes off - and you don't even see it.
What does 'Windows' mean? It is a word for a window, a physical thing in your house, a glass square that you can look out and see stuff. And your computer has a glass square and you can look 'through' that glass square and see stuff. What is a 'mouse'? A mouse is a small thing that fits in your hand, and has a tail. And next to your keyboard there is one, and you can move it around and see an arrow move on the screen. What is a 'keyboard'? A board, with keys. Look down under your hands, it's that. What is 'Word', in the context of your computer? Maybe an application to work with your words (ie, word processor). Yes. What is 'Internet Explorer'? Maybe an application to explore the Internet? Yes. What is 'Media Player'? Maybe an application to play media (music, movies, etc)? Yes. What is 'Paint'? Maybe an application that lets me do pictures? Yes. What is 'Calculator'? Maybe an application that does on the computer what a real calculator does in real life? Yes. What is the 'clipboard'? Place where stuff can be cut and pasted? Yes.
Stay with me now... here's where it gets tricky What is 'Linux'? Another operating system? Good. What is 'Ubuntu'? The first black guy off the boat in the movie Roots? (No, that was Kunta.) What is 'GIMP'? A gay slave in black leather hood, kept in the back of a pawn shop in the movie Pulp Fiction? (hmmm. You got me there.) What is 'Klipper'? A big ocean going ship? (arg) What is 'YaST'? You use it to make bread, along with flour and water and eggs. (Arg) What is 'Kopete'? A drug made from a cactus that grows in Northern Mexico? (No, that's peyote) What is 'Firefox' - look at the icon carefully and see that it looks a LOT like your Internet Explorer icon? Internet Explorer on Linux? (Damn, good job.) What is 'Kunta Kinte'? An operating system? (No, I already told you - he was the first black guy off the boat in the movie Roots.) What is 'OO.org'? A porn site? (No, that's your new version of Office.) What's with the '.org'? (I don't know.) What is 'amaroK'? Fuck this, I'm going back to Windows.
When Linux applications / applets start getting names that regular people can relate to - only THEN will we start overcoming the hurdles to acceptance. I've been using Linux of some sort or another on and off since about 1997 and there is no way in hell I'm going to say in public 'I'm going home where I will make Ubuntu and the GIMP do what I want.' Sorry, but no. Couple that with all the 'free as in beer' / 'free as in sex' (or whatever the hell) F/OSS political rantings - and we're just getting in our own way.
(Disclaimer - I'm in Firefox right now, on SuSE 10.1 Professional.)
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Invite them out to dinner. Take separate cars. Get them drunk. Really, really drunk (ie, blow a.21 or higher.) You drink water. Call the cops when you are on the way out to the parking lot. Problem solved.
He forgot a few : I will not be a camper or AWP-whore. I will not spawn-kill. I will not kill-steal or ninja-loot or intentionally train-to-zone. I will immediately delete any porn I find that involves obviously underage participants, and then go wash my eyes out with soap.
He wasn't the first. He won't be the last. It will likely happen to someone you know. And you will keep your mouth shut / look away when it does, because you will be afraid.
Having seen what life was like in just-after-the-fall-of-Communism Russia (I spent a month there, circa 1993), I used to envision what life was like when the people needed to have a passport to travel between cities, when people were afraid to talk in their own homes, when a government official could grab someone and make them an example or worse yet, when people simple disappeared off to Siberia in the middle of the night. I wondered what life was like in a place where children were encouraged to tell on their parents, their siblings, their friends. I wondered what life was like with a KGB agent or military guards armed with machine guns watching over people as they lined up to walk through a metal detector, taking off their shoes and holding their arms out so they could be frisked while everyone watched. I wondered what life was like when people could have their lives destroyed for listening to music that wasn't officially sanctioned, watching a movie that hadn't been obtained in the proper fashion, or playing a game in a fashion that the government decided was unpatriotic or terrorist.
I have now seen all of the above right here, right now in America - and I must say that I don't care for it much. No, not at all.
Under Communist rule in Russia there was nothing you could say or do to make it better - your only hope was to remain invisible. Now, I know how they must have lived.
I cry for the guy in the story only as a proxy. The real tears are for America as a country. My country.
What makes you think he is the first? Or even the first that isn't really a terrorist, not even a dissenter?
I assure you - that's not the case.
Sad news is - he's probably a pretty smart kid, and now he is fucked for life. Good luck scoring that academic scholarship and making something of yourself, kid - I genuinely cry a tear for you.
Networking as in developing a social network of peers that you have human interaction with on a regular basis, and possibly discuss the potential of finding a job working with someone they might now. It's not just a neat concept - it's how the world works.
Maybe WoW is responsible for the difference in numbers. It could be that people bought WoW and didn't buy another five different games that year, games that they might have bought if they weren't still playing WoW.
I'm considering getting one, get another year out of my AGP system - and if the lower end 8xxx series comes out in AGP with a reasonable power requirement I may have to get it instead.
You realize that the Soviet launch vehicle isn't just burning that $25M as twenty five million $1 bills, right? The money is being reaped back into the program, and $25M is a metric assload of cash for a Soviet government program in today's Russian economy. The money, quite possibly, made this trip possible (or at least helped make it possible.) For about $25k, you can take a few rides in one of several MiG/Su (Russian jet fighters) - a lot of the money goes towards the gas and maintenance of the jets, of course, and... well it gives the military pilots some more air time. Simple, symbotic, and evidently effective (because they are still offering it.)
If some lamer wants to drive my 350z, I tell him to buzz off. If some millionaire offered me $30k to borrow my Z for a month long road trip... I'd probably let him.
Pick up the phone. It's Blue Gene, the computer that kicked Garry Kasparov's ass in chess - and he wants to have a word with you.
The game stuff seems more like a lot of parameters put in anticipated by a human author. And when you boil it down, that is EXACTLY what AI is. Well there are two ways to develop the experience from which intelligence draws from when making decisions : either do the thing and remember the result, or have someone describe the thing and the result. Humans do it both ways, as do computers. In theory you could pit the two best AI engines (at chess, for example) against each other in learn mode, turn them on full speed and let them run a while and they (again, in theory) should get better. Or you could just have your developers put in more AI directives and have it get better.
... there are many expert Java programmers out there; just because some of them haven't touched the assembly, doesn't mean they are newbie.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. The majority of 'expert' Java programmers I have met that don't also have a strong background that runs all the way to the bare metal (ie, assembly programming) are not expert programmers, they are generally self taught Java programmers that are either very familiar with a large variety of libraries in Java, or have figured out how to put together.jsp pages and.java pages using Struts to implement the MVC model on an application server.
Knowing a little of just one language is what I consider the mark of a newbie. Advanced programmers know multiple languages, usually of different types -- not necessarily a lot of the low-level details, unless they choose to be low-level programmers, or they need some assembly code to solve a performance or to be able to understand their debugger's assembly dump.
Whoops. I should have kept reading. It looks like we agree afterall.
Very true, but the issue I was getting at was that the thin layer of gold would be instead of the thermal grease, and would serve to create the 'gasket' between the CPU and heatsink, increasing (significantly, if my theory is right) the thermal transfer as the gold would have a much higher coefficient of thermal conductivity than even the best paste. The reason I suggested gold is that gold can easily be purchased in small quantities of gold foil, the gold foil is ~very~ flexible / malleable and would serve to fill in all the microscopic gaps between the CPU and heatsink creating a thermal bridge in the process (which is the purpose of the paste), thus making the cooling solution quite a bit more effective.
In theory.
Anybody want to try it, perhaps on some older hardware?
Here's a thought, since you appear to be a fairly fluent 'modder' - What if, after lapping both the heatsink and the CPU (to a mirror flat finish, or not, probably worth experimenting) instead of thermal paste you used gold leaf foil? Basically it is gold pounded ultra thin (in the 100 nanometer range, such that one square meter is made from 2 grams of gold), flat, would flex/bend to conform to the two surfaces and has the thermal transfer quality of... well gold (which is pretty good.) I'd envision that if you got the lap right on both the CPU and the heatsink, you could do it as a single dry leaf (not as a paste) and give it a few minutes to settle in under pressure, turn on the CPU to heat things up a little until it seated in better (don't burn it in right away) and watch the CPU temps - I would be REAL interested in hearing how it went.
Try it with a system you are retiring anyways, see what kind of difference it made. Never know, since a piece of gold leaf isn't prohibitively expensive (a small piece would cost you less than a dollar, get a few pieces while you are dialing in the process.)
Obviously there is only so much hardware you can throw at a system...
As someone running a four box cluster of HyperThreaded P4's and dreaming of replacing them with the new 8-way offerings from Intel and AMD... oh I assure you that's not the case.
Man, it's one thing to have someone spoil the joke by telling the secret. It's another thing altogether to have someone spoil the joke by thinking they are telling the secret, and screwing up the math along the way.
(Hint : It's been a long time since I dabbled, but last time I checked 32767 as a signed short = 0111 1111 1111 1111 binary. Add one and you get 1000 0000 0000 0000, which is -32768, not -1. A+ for effort though.)
Bug report #213571. Description : Airbus 380 went inverted and then went into a tailspin when flying at 32,768 feet. Airbus crashed.
Comments --- Code looks correct. Please attempt to recreate and describe precisely the process by which the issue was recreated. If the problem does not happen repeatedly this is an incident and not a bug.
Good job. Honestly the way I look at it, any clown with a pulse can pull down A's in undergrad if they attend every class and study a few hours a night. What kind of challenge is that? Now those of us that can cram four chapters of calculus based physics into an all nighter and ace the exam, consistently enough to get an A for the semester - now THAT is talent.
ITT pulling the plug on Internet after hours and that's a travesty? HAH! Hell when I lived in the dorms in college we didn't even have Internet connections, and most of us didn't even have computers. We had to go wait in line to use the single Commodore 64 owned by the guy down the hall, hooked up to a 15" television, and we were THANKFUL!
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Actually having looked in NYC and Boston, the most expensive studio apartment I have seen yet has been less than $2k a month including all bills. That's still $25k a year just on housing, but isn't $100k a year.
I still agree with your point, though.
And I've looked in Austin, too - it isn't the garden of $60k a year positions for entry level software engineers that the GP suggests.
$30k a year gross :
... so there's the comparison. Software engineering after five years = way below the curve set by the Military. Possibly behind the curve for life, and that's before we consider going in as an officer (requires college, etc.) After only a single promotion with 3 years in the service, an O2 in the Navy stationed in San Diego makes the equiv of $73.5k a year. Makes what they are offering software engineers with three years experience look like chicken-feed, and again - we keep hearing how we 'under-pay' the military.
-7.5% FICA (-2250)
-5% 401(k) (-1500)
-15% IRS (-4500)
-$300 a month for student loans (using your example) (-3600)
=$18k a year take home = $1,500 a month to live on.
Rent on a 700sf apartment, 1br/1ba, in just about anywhere that has tech jobs nearby (California, Boston area, etc) will run you $800 a month easy. $700 a month for a complete dive in a crack infested neighborhood.
Electricity / heat / water - $100 / month (being conservative).
Cable (internet / maybe also tv) - $60 / month.
Phone (cell or land-line) - $40 a month
Car insurance for a young single man - $100 / month
I'm going to assume a car that runs but is older (no payment). Maintenance ($50/mo), gas ($100/mo) : $150 / month
That leaves $350 a month.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner on $10 a day is not unreasonable, for a healthy diet including eggs, bread, milk, coffee, meat, cheese - all the things a software engineer eats.
That leaves $50 a month for :
clothing (for working in an office setting)
laundry (once a month, whether it needs it or not)
ethanol (beer / liquor)
music
hardware upgrades (have to keep current)
WoW subscription
furnishing your home
going on dates
chocolate
and emergencies.
I'm not saying it can't be done - I've lived on less (was only making $25k a year right out of college) - I'm just saying it isn't the kind of life that you might expect for a degreed professional software engineer.
For comparison, assuming instead had you gone into the military as a boot-camp recruit (E1) and did five years (four years instead of college, plus you would be in your fifth year) and made E5 (not difficult, it is like a second class or something, still a nobody with no authority or responsibility) according to the pay charts found here in San Diego you would be making the equiv of about $50.5k a year, including housing and subsistance pay (but not including combat pay, no matter how rough things get in San Diego.) And no student loans, which is another $3,600 a year difference, bringing it up to an effective $54k a year. And no medical costs. And after less than 30 years you can retire at 100% of your base salary (that would mean retiring at 45 with a lifetime income of about $55k a year, plus or minus depending on how far up the food chain you made it.) As someone going on 40, the thought of being able to retire in five years at 100% of my base salary sounds really, really good right about now. A LOT better than waiting until I'm 65 or 68 or whatever they cranked it up to recently for the regular world.
And we keep hearing how 'under paid' the military enlisted are
in Texas teachers make $38-40K to start for nine months of work ... be a science or math teacher!
$40k to start? For nine months of work? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say
You are so close to stumbling onto the answer, the door through which Linux must walk before it takes off - and you don't even see it.
... here's where it gets tricky
What does 'Windows' mean? It is a word for a window, a physical thing in your house, a glass square that you can look out and see stuff. And your computer has a glass square and you can look 'through' that glass square and see stuff.
What is a 'mouse'? A mouse is a small thing that fits in your hand, and has a tail. And next to your keyboard there is one, and you can move it around and see an arrow move on the screen.
What is a 'keyboard'? A board, with keys. Look down under your hands, it's that.
What is 'Word', in the context of your computer? Maybe an application to work with your words (ie, word processor). Yes.
What is 'Internet Explorer'? Maybe an application to explore the Internet? Yes.
What is 'Media Player'? Maybe an application to play media (music, movies, etc)? Yes.
What is 'Paint'? Maybe an application that lets me do pictures? Yes.
What is 'Calculator'? Maybe an application that does on the computer what a real calculator does in real life? Yes.
What is the 'clipboard'? Place where stuff can be cut and pasted? Yes.
Stay with me now
What is 'Linux'? Another operating system? Good.
What is 'Ubuntu'? The first black guy off the boat in the movie Roots? (No, that was Kunta.)
What is 'GIMP'? A gay slave in black leather hood, kept in the back of a pawn shop in the movie Pulp Fiction? (hmmm. You got me there.)
What is 'Klipper'? A big ocean going ship? (arg)
What is 'YaST'? You use it to make bread, along with flour and water and eggs. (Arg)
What is 'Kopete'? A drug made from a cactus that grows in Northern Mexico? (No, that's peyote)
What is 'Firefox' - look at the icon carefully and see that it looks a LOT like your Internet Explorer icon? Internet Explorer on Linux? (Damn, good job.)
What is 'Kunta Kinte'? An operating system? (No, I already told you - he was the first black guy off the boat in the movie Roots.)
What is 'OO.org'? A porn site? (No, that's your new version of Office.) What's with the '.org'? (I don't know.)
What is 'amaroK'? Fuck this, I'm going back to Windows.
When Linux applications / applets start getting names that regular people can relate to - only THEN will we start overcoming the hurdles to acceptance. I've been using Linux of some sort or another on and off since about 1997 and there is no way in hell I'm going to say in public 'I'm going home where I will make Ubuntu and the GIMP do what I want.' Sorry, but no. Couple that with all the 'free as in beer' / 'free as in sex' (or whatever the hell) F/OSS political rantings - and we're just getting in our own way.
(Disclaimer - I'm in Firefox right now, on SuSE 10.1 Professional.)
I'm with you. Actually I was summoned here for a reason, and I've decided you can help.
Details in sig.
An even better bet : anything that contains HTML tags that are not valid tags is very likely spam.
Three or more invalid HTML tags in the same email - practical guarantee that it is spam.
Invite them out to dinner. Take separate cars. .21 or higher.) You drink water.
Get them drunk. Really, really drunk (ie, blow a
Call the cops when you are on the way out to the parking lot.
Problem solved.
He forgot a few :
I will not be a camper or AWP-whore.
I will not spawn-kill.
I will not kill-steal or ninja-loot or intentionally train-to-zone.
I will immediately delete any porn I find that involves obviously underage participants, and then go wash my eyes out with soap.
Exactly.
He wasn't the first.
He won't be the last.
It will likely happen to someone you know. And you will keep your mouth shut / look away when it does, because you will be afraid.
Having seen what life was like in just-after-the-fall-of-Communism Russia (I spent a month there, circa 1993), I used to envision what life was like when the people needed to have a passport to travel between cities, when people were afraid to talk in their own homes, when a government official could grab someone and make them an example or worse yet, when people simple disappeared off to Siberia in the middle of the night. I wondered what life was like in a place where children were encouraged to tell on their parents, their siblings, their friends. I wondered what life was like with a KGB agent or military guards armed with machine guns watching over people as they lined up to walk through a metal detector, taking off their shoes and holding their arms out so they could be frisked while everyone watched. I wondered what life was like when people could have their lives destroyed for listening to music that wasn't officially sanctioned, watching a movie that hadn't been obtained in the proper fashion, or playing a game in a fashion that the government decided was unpatriotic or terrorist.
I have now seen all of the above right here, right now in America - and I must say that I don't care for it much. No, not at all.
Under Communist rule in Russia there was nothing you could say or do to make it better - your only hope was to remain invisible.
Now, I know how they must have lived.
I cry for the guy in the story only as a proxy. The real tears are for America as a country. My country.
What makes you think he is the first?
Or even the first that isn't really a terrorist, not even a dissenter?
I assure you - that's not the case.
Sad news is - he's probably a pretty smart kid, and now he is fucked for life.
Good luck scoring that academic scholarship and making something of yourself, kid - I genuinely cry a tear for you.
Networking as in developing a social network of peers that you have human interaction with on a regular basis, and possibly discuss the potential of finding a job working with someone they might now.
It's not just a neat concept - it's how the world works.
Maybe WoW is responsible for the difference in numbers.
It could be that people bought WoW and didn't buy another five different games that year, games that they might have bought if they weren't still playing WoW.
They weren't slipping their release date.
They were just waiting for hardware performance to catch up.
You mean like this one?
7600GT AGP
I'm considering getting one, get another year out of my AGP system - and if the lower end 8xxx series comes out in AGP with a reasonable power requirement I may have to get it instead.
You realize that the Soviet launch vehicle isn't just burning that $25M as twenty five million $1 bills, right? ... well it gives the military pilots some more air time. Simple, symbotic, and evidently effective (because they are still offering it.)
... I'd probably let him.
The money is being reaped back into the program, and $25M is a metric assload of cash for a Soviet government program in today's Russian economy. The money, quite possibly, made this trip possible (or at least helped make it possible.) For about $25k, you can take a few rides in one of several MiG/Su (Russian jet fighters) - a lot of the money goes towards the gas and maintenance of the jets, of course, and
If some lamer wants to drive my 350z, I tell him to buzz off. If some millionaire offered me $30k to borrow my Z for a month long road trip
Pick up the phone. It's Blue Gene, the computer that kicked Garry Kasparov's ass in chess - and he wants to have a word with you.
The game stuff seems more like a lot of parameters put in anticipated by a human author.
And when you boil it down, that is EXACTLY what AI is. Well there are two ways to develop the experience from which intelligence draws from when making decisions : either do the thing and remember the result, or have someone describe the thing and the result. Humans do it both ways, as do computers. In theory you could pit the two best AI engines (at chess, for example) against each other in learn mode, turn them on full speed and let them run a while and they (again, in theory) should get better. Or you could just have your developers put in more AI directives and have it get better.
... there are many expert Java programmers out there; just because some of them haven't touched the assembly, doesn't mean they are newbie.
.jsp pages and .java pages using Struts to implement the MVC model on an application server.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you. The majority of 'expert' Java programmers I have met that don't also have a strong background that runs all the way to the bare metal (ie, assembly programming) are not expert programmers, they are generally self taught Java programmers that are either very familiar with a large variety of libraries in Java, or have figured out how to put together
Knowing a little of just one language is what I consider the mark of a newbie. Advanced programmers know multiple languages, usually of different types -- not necessarily a lot of the low-level details, unless they choose to be low-level programmers, or they need some assembly code to solve a performance or to be able to understand their debugger's assembly dump.
Whoops. I should have kept reading. It looks like we agree afterall.
Very true, but the issue I was getting at was that the thin layer of gold would be instead of the thermal grease, and would serve to create the 'gasket' between the CPU and heatsink, increasing (significantly, if my theory is right) the thermal transfer as the gold would have a much higher coefficient of thermal conductivity than even the best paste. The reason I suggested gold is that gold can easily be purchased in small quantities of gold foil, the gold foil is ~very~ flexible / malleable and would serve to fill in all the microscopic gaps between the CPU and heatsink creating a thermal bridge in the process (which is the purpose of the paste), thus making the cooling solution quite a bit more effective.
In theory.
Anybody want to try it, perhaps on some older hardware?
Here's a thought, since you appear to be a fairly fluent 'modder' - ... well gold (which is pretty good.) I'd envision that if you got the lap right on both the CPU and the heatsink, you could do it as a single dry leaf (not as a paste) and give it a few minutes to settle in under pressure, turn on the CPU to heat things up a little until it seated in better (don't burn it in right away) and watch the CPU temps - I would be REAL interested in hearing how it went.
What if, after lapping both the heatsink and the CPU (to a mirror flat finish, or not, probably worth experimenting) instead of thermal paste you used gold leaf foil? Basically it is gold pounded ultra thin (in the 100 nanometer range, such that one square meter is made from 2 grams of gold), flat, would flex/bend to conform to the two surfaces and has the thermal transfer quality of
Try it with a system you are retiring anyways, see what kind of difference it made. Never know, since a piece of gold leaf isn't prohibitively expensive (a small piece would cost you less than a dollar, get a few pieces while you are dialing in the process.)
Obviously there is only so much hardware you can throw at a system...
... oh I assure you that's not the case.
As someone running a four box cluster of HyperThreaded P4's and dreaming of replacing them with the new 8-way offerings from Intel and AMD
Man, it's one thing to have someone spoil the joke by telling the secret.
It's another thing altogether to have someone spoil the joke by thinking they are telling the secret, and screwing up the math along the way.
(Hint : It's been a long time since I dabbled, but last time I checked 32767 as a signed short = 0111 1111 1111 1111 binary.
Add one and you get 1000 0000 0000 0000, which is -32768, not -1. A+ for effort though.)
Bug report #213571.
Description : Airbus 380 went inverted and then went into a tailspin when flying at 32,768 feet. Airbus crashed.
Comments ---
Code looks correct. Please attempt to recreate and describe precisely the process by which the issue was recreated.
If the problem does not happen repeatedly this is an incident and not a bug.
Bug log closed.
Good job. Honestly the way I look at it, any clown with a pulse can pull down A's in undergrad if they attend every class and study a few hours a night. What kind of challenge is that? Now those of us that can cram four chapters of calculus based physics into an all nighter and ace the exam, consistently enough to get an A for the semester - now THAT is talent.
ITT pulling the plug on Internet after hours and that's a travesty? HAH! Hell when I lived in the dorms in college we didn't even have Internet connections, and most of us didn't even have computers. We had to go wait in line to use the single Commodore 64 owned by the guy down the hall, hooked up to a 15" television, and we were THANKFUL!
Get Forza, and if you have an XBox 360 get Forza 2 when it comes out (in a month or two.)
Trust me on this one.
So would it be ironic if Jack Thompson got car-jacked at a busy intersection, pulled out of his car and beat to death? Or just funny as shit?