Canada has the best bang-for-the-buck education you can get. There are many good universities of similar caliber to the best institutions in the United States. You have to pay a 100% foreign student differential fee, but if you get naturalized (which can take six months if you're sufficiently skilled and find a job for a short while up here) you're back to the baseline. Housing and food is much cheaper too. The only thing you won't get is the prestige and contacts which, to some, represent the real advantage of taking an MBA. It's all a balance. If you're a real go-getter, I think you can find ways to make your own contacts in industry, albeit slowly.
Redundancy of information stored?
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I have to wonder what type of redundancy and error correction will have to be built into quantum computing. With all sorts of EM disturbances that are recoverable in atomic-level computing like we have today, what will happen when we go that small? I'm not necessarily asserting that it will happen, but that we need to understand the phenomena in all sorts of usage, including high-altitude applications and cosmic rays. The one thing we take for granted in modern electronics, particularly storage devices, is their hard resiliency to soft errors (i.e. soft errors don't necessarily translate to hard errors).
I wasn't a coder (fortunately), but I was a design engineer. The long hours and social isolation made my life very hard, and I was getting dissociated. Being a social person, I had to change something, and that was to get a business degree (MBA in my case). I got it not so I can wave the degree around, but to add a business dimension to my engineering brain, and boy did it help. I'm extremely versatile, I'm working in a business environment where I not only chase down business with the business portion of my skills, I help define new products for customers with my engineering portion of my skills and my heart. And I always remember the engineers and don't sell them short like so many of the idiot sales guys and managers had when I was the design engineer.
In short, do your best to infiltrate the top ranks now. We may hold a lot of resentment towards PHBs, but with a little tact we can defeat the PHBs like the Mandarin Chinese defeated the Mongols - not by force, but by integrating them into our culture.
I leave you with this quote: "If you hire someone smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." - R.H. Grant
If the treadwear rating on the tire is low (e.g. 60 for racing slicks), then the tires will wear out five times faster than the average passenger car tire (treadwear of about 300). It also depends on how you drive and what surfaces you drive on. Driving over crushed shale on your way to these remote towns north of the Arctic Circle is a lot worse than driving over freshly paved smooth blacktop.
But there's a bigger problem here. Most of the mass of the tires is in the steel belts and the sidewalls to keep its integrity. I don't disagree that there may be some impact from tire dust, but this sounds like another misguided crusade to try and find something wrong with cars with respect to the environment.
The problem here is how to bring that message to folks. An uncontrolled medium such as the Internet is very easy to at least publish and, to a lesser extent, promote. The sad part is the very media that would reach the masses are controlled by the other side - namely, television and radio. It's the lowest common denominator, yet how do you penetrate it when it is on the opposite side of the fence?
This needs to start with us, every day. With our secretaries, our neighbors, our grandmothers, everyone in every way. Word of mouth is powerful. But it can't just stop there, and I fear that it won't be enough in the end. With digital tv and DVD Audio just around the corner, and more severe copyright controls, you can bet that this problem will be even worse, and this message will sadly be further quelled. Nevertheless, it all starts with us...
Think again - EDA tools prove this wrong
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At the semiconductor company where I work, I'm finding most of the EDA tools are being ported from expensive Sun Ultrasparcs to P4/Athlon-based commodity platforms with Linux OSes. And guess what? The processor clock speed has a direct correlation with performance compared to the slow-poke Ultrasparc 3s. You can reach a memory limit for some operations, but tools like Magma and our internal tools that are ported are running at least twice as fast per processor. Particularly with hierarchical designs, the only time the Sun Servers become necessary is for all the back end physical verification, parasitic extraction and signal integrity analysis, where less users are interactively spending their time anyway versus the floorplan/place/route anyway. So, whether I go out and buy an E4500 with 6 processors and 20GB of memory and use LSF, or I buy a dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 4GB of ECC and a Seagate HD, I'm getting a hell of a lot more mileage out of the dual Xeon and a huge cost benefit too for 10% of the entry cost of the Sun.
Sorry, but commodity PC hardware really does have a place in real computational work on the design of multimillion-gate standard-cell ASICs like the ones going into the latest Nvidia and ATI cards. The Suns are, for now, necessary, but it won't be long until commodity hardware usurps its place for a fraction of their overpriced niche monopoly in EDA tools.
If you have a transmitter that's not more than 100mW ERP transmitting a nice sine wave around the mixer frequency of FM radio, anyone living nearby can just point it at the billboard and voila! The billboard will likely read only your frequency. Make a directional antenna and make it even better. Best of all, as long as ERP is not higher than 100mW, there's absolutely nothing they can do - no more than you can do anything about them. Fight fire WITH fire!
"...such file networks have particular difficulty locating uncommon documents, and that walkers are especially bad at it. This is because there are relatively few walkers, which might have to visit every node on the network to find the file.
"Langley also says the different connection speeds and processing power of the individual computers in the network may complicate the model: "Random walkers are going to end up at the well connected nodes."
My biggest pleasure from P2P is finding obscure or rare music. I could care less how many copies of N*Sync or Britney Spears there are. Give me rare studio cuts or bootleg recordings of the Grateful Dead any day. This strategy won't help searches for those types of items, but it sure will help the sheeple get their music.
If we've got Cat6 now, and Cat7 on the horizon, this can only mean good things for Joe Average. I don't see a need to move to fiber optic cables. There are dangers and inconveniences such as laser exposure, fiber slivers in the skin or accidental ingestion, and proper disposal.
Give me a crimper and some twisted pairs in a jacket, and I'll be happy no matter what the application for a long long time.
I mean, it's a cool idea, but how long can you possibly stare at a tiny little screen for to watch something? And what would require such urgency that you need to carry a television around? I get enough eye strain staring at a 17" monitor a good chunk of the day, never mind doing the same thing on a small display.
If it's a sports event like hockey, forget about seeing where the puck is going. Academy awards results can come via text messages. 3G networks will make streaming video possible over phones anyway. Reception can't be that great on a little watch. For portable TV, I have my 4" Casio screen, and then only if it's used sparingly.
That's not to say that it's not interesting technology or that we shouldn't commemorate it. I used to have a Pac Man video game watch (the one with the joystick, not the buttons), and I wish I still had it because it was neat. But, like all thing in life, we have to move on to what's modern and better. I'll probably be playing video games on the go on my cell phone soon, and so will I be watching tv and video, if not on my multi-function multi-emulator PDA.
I can't believe someone would even go this far. You do know that these power supplies have built-in protections like fuses to protect against overcurrent conditions, right? You do know that anything that plugs into a wall that's sold to the public has to have government certification first, right?
Ugh, these topics get on my nerves.
...means you bit-reverse that byte. Glorious. And this message is double ROT-13 encoded, so anyone reading it is in violation of the DMCA.
*shakeshead*
Just because there are tons of creditors for the equipment that WorldCom runs doesn't mean that the service will be interrupted. The massive amount of debt is essentially represented by the assets themselves. The ongoing costs are relatively miniscule, incremental, and covered by the incremental usage. The rest is allocated over an amortization schedule.
In short, it does not serve creditor interests to simply shut the switches off. They have to recover part of their costs somehow, and that way is to keep the machine humming. My bet is that they will be sold at firesale prices to other major carriers (e.g. Sprint, UUNet, etc.) and the investors and banks will just simply eat the rest.
As a (relatively new) Linux user, my first distro was Mandrake 8.1. What's nice about Mandrake is that there are GUI interfaces for everything. I mean, I've been working with Solaris and HP/UX for years and writing perl scripts and scheduling cron jobs, but never had to deal with "admin-type" issues like drivers and installing software and hardware. I don't mind going in and trying to figure out command-line switches for various tools and turning system services on and off. Mandrake is getting pretty close to the ideal, particularly with its HardDrake detection and its unbelievably good disk partitioning tool.
That's not to say that it's perfect - I still think the whole package/RPM thing needs a lot of refinement, and there are bugs like losing sound on my A3D card for no reason (a known KDE problem). In fact, there's the rub - when it comes to ease of use, Windows still has Mandrake and the rest of the Linuxes beat hands-down. But like I've said before - with 10% of the development budget of Windows products, and buy-in from major software developers in multimedia, Linux could be a Windows killer. Just like UnitedLinux is supposed to do.
Therein lies the problem - do you take the distro with the currently closest emulation of Windows' ease-of-use and push it to effective completion, or do you go and pool development efforts to make all the rest of the distros good? My hope is that cooler heads and better attitudes prevail, because many Linux distros and the fate of Linux on the desktop lies in the next move made by all Linux companies.
This is just getting stupid at this point. I knew Microsoft wanted to "control" the desktop; I just didn't think it was going to be that way literally...
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Canada has the best bang-for-the-buck education you can get. There are many good universities of similar caliber to the best institutions in the United States. You have to pay a 100% foreign student differential fee, but if you get naturalized (which can take six months if you're sufficiently skilled and find a job for a short while up here) you're back to the baseline. Housing and food is much cheaper too. The only thing you won't get is the prestige and contacts which, to some, represent the real advantage of taking an MBA. It's all a balance. If you're a real go-getter, I think you can find ways to make your own contacts in industry, albeit slowly.
I have to wonder what type of redundancy and error correction will have to be built into quantum computing. With all sorts of EM disturbances that are recoverable in atomic-level computing like we have today, what will happen when we go that small? I'm not necessarily asserting that it will happen, but that we need to understand the phenomena in all sorts of usage, including high-altitude applications and cosmic rays. The one thing we take for granted in modern electronics, particularly storage devices, is their hard resiliency to soft errors (i.e. soft errors don't necessarily translate to hard errors).
I wasn't a coder (fortunately), but I was a design engineer. The long hours and social isolation made my life very hard, and I was getting dissociated. Being a social person, I had to change something, and that was to get a business degree (MBA in my case). I got it not so I can wave the degree around, but to add a business dimension to my engineering brain, and boy did it help. I'm extremely versatile, I'm working in a business environment where I not only chase down business with the business portion of my skills, I help define new products for customers with my engineering portion of my skills and my heart. And I always remember the engineers and don't sell them short like so many of the idiot sales guys and managers had when I was the design engineer.
In short, do your best to infiltrate the top ranks now. We may hold a lot of resentment towards PHBs, but with a little tact we can defeat the PHBs like the Mandarin Chinese defeated the Mongols - not by force, but by integrating them into our culture.
I leave you with this quote:
"If you hire someone smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." - R.H. Grant
If the treadwear rating on the tire is low (e.g. 60 for racing slicks), then the tires will wear out five times faster than the average passenger car tire (treadwear of about 300). It also depends on how you drive and what surfaces you drive on. Driving over crushed shale on your way to these remote towns north of the Arctic Circle is a lot worse than driving over freshly paved smooth blacktop. But there's a bigger problem here. Most of the mass of the tires is in the steel belts and the sidewalls to keep its integrity. I don't disagree that there may be some impact from tire dust, but this sounds like another misguided crusade to try and find something wrong with cars with respect to the environment.
...when will it be used for pr0n?
The problem here is how to bring that message to folks. An uncontrolled medium such as the Internet is very easy to at least publish and, to a lesser extent, promote. The sad part is the very media that would reach the masses are controlled by the other side - namely, television and radio. It's the lowest common denominator, yet how do you penetrate it when it is on the opposite side of the fence?
This needs to start with us, every day. With our secretaries, our neighbors, our grandmothers, everyone in every way. Word of mouth is powerful. But it can't just stop there, and I fear that it won't be enough in the end. With digital tv and DVD Audio just around the corner, and more severe copyright controls, you can bet that this problem will be even worse, and this message will sadly be further quelled. Nevertheless, it all starts with us...
At the semiconductor company where I work, I'm finding most of the EDA tools are being ported from expensive Sun Ultrasparcs to P4/Athlon-based commodity platforms with Linux OSes. And guess what? The processor clock speed has a direct correlation with performance compared to the slow-poke Ultrasparc 3s. You can reach a memory limit for some operations, but tools like Magma and our internal tools that are ported are running at least twice as fast per processor. Particularly with hierarchical designs, the only time the Sun Servers become necessary is for all the back end physical verification, parasitic extraction and signal integrity analysis, where less users are interactively spending their time anyway versus the floorplan/place/route anyway. So, whether I go out and buy an E4500 with 6 processors and 20GB of memory and use LSF, or I buy a dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 4GB of ECC and a Seagate HD, I'm getting a hell of a lot more mileage out of the dual Xeon and a huge cost benefit too for 10% of the entry cost of the Sun.
Sorry, but commodity PC hardware really does have a place in real computational work on the design of multimillion-gate standard-cell ASICs like the ones going into the latest Nvidia and ATI cards. The Suns are, for now, necessary, but it won't be long until commodity hardware usurps its place for a fraction of their overpriced niche monopoly in EDA tools.
Brings new meaning to the term "burns my ass"...
If you have a transmitter that's not more than 100mW ERP transmitting a nice sine wave around the mixer frequency of FM radio, anyone living nearby can just point it at the billboard and voila! The billboard will likely read only your frequency. Make a directional antenna and make it even better. Best of all, as long as ERP is not higher than 100mW, there's absolutely nothing they can do - no more than you can do anything about them. Fight fire WITH fire!
Thanks for clearing that up. Unfortunately, we can't edit messages here, but some folks can read between the lines. *tipshat*
"...such file networks have particular difficulty locating uncommon documents, and that walkers are especially bad at it. This is because there are relatively few walkers, which might have to visit every node on the network to find the file.
"Langley also says the different connection speeds and processing power of the individual computers in the network may complicate the model: "Random walkers are going to end up at the well connected nodes."
My biggest pleasure from P2P is finding obscure or rare music. I could care less how many copies of N*Sync or Britney Spears there are. Give me rare studio cuts or bootleg recordings of the Grateful Dead any day. This strategy won't help searches for those types of items, but it sure will help the sheeple get their music.
If we've got Cat6 now, and Cat7 on the horizon, this can only mean good things for Joe Average. I don't see a need to move to fiber optic cables. There are dangers and inconveniences such as laser exposure, fiber slivers in the skin or accidental ingestion, and proper disposal. Give me a crimper and some twisted pairs in a jacket, and I'll be happy no matter what the application for a long long time.
I mean, it's a cool idea, but how long can you possibly stare at a tiny little screen for to watch something? And what would require such urgency that you need to carry a television around? I get enough eye strain staring at a 17" monitor a good chunk of the day, never mind doing the same thing on a small display.
If it's a sports event like hockey, forget about seeing where the puck is going. Academy awards results can come via text messages. 3G networks will make streaming video possible over phones anyway. Reception can't be that great on a little watch. For portable TV, I have my 4" Casio screen, and then only if it's used sparingly.
That's not to say that it's not interesting technology or that we shouldn't commemorate it. I used to have a Pac Man video game watch (the one with the joystick, not the buttons), and I wish I still had it because it was neat. But, like all thing in life, we have to move on to what's modern and better. I'll probably be playing video games on the go on my cell phone soon, and so will I be watching tv and video, if not on my multi-function multi-emulator PDA.
I can't believe someone would even go this far. You do know that these power supplies have built-in protections like fuses to protect against overcurrent conditions, right? You do know that anything that plugs into a wall that's sold to the public has to have government certification first, right? Ugh, these topics get on my nerves.
...means you bit-reverse that byte. Glorious. And this message is double ROT-13 encoded, so anyone reading it is in violation of the DMCA. *shakeshead*
Did you bother to read my follow-up post about a mistake I made? You remember those, right? Mistakes? I made one. I'm truly sorry.
Yeah, they'll probably scapegoat the SOBs...
:)
And I had one small brain fart in listing UUNet as other providers. Oops...
Just because there are tons of creditors for the equipment that WorldCom runs doesn't mean that the service will be interrupted. The massive amount of debt is essentially represented by the assets themselves. The ongoing costs are relatively miniscule, incremental, and covered by the incremental usage. The rest is allocated over an amortization schedule. In short, it does not serve creditor interests to simply shut the switches off. They have to recover part of their costs somehow, and that way is to keep the machine humming. My bet is that they will be sold at firesale prices to other major carriers (e.g. Sprint, UUNet, etc.) and the investors and banks will just simply eat the rest.
As a (relatively new) Linux user, my first distro was Mandrake 8.1. What's nice about Mandrake is that there are GUI interfaces for everything. I mean, I've been working with Solaris and HP/UX for years and writing perl scripts and scheduling cron jobs, but never had to deal with "admin-type" issues like drivers and installing software and hardware. I don't mind going in and trying to figure out command-line switches for various tools and turning system services on and off. Mandrake is getting pretty close to the ideal, particularly with its HardDrake detection and its unbelievably good disk partitioning tool. That's not to say that it's perfect - I still think the whole package/RPM thing needs a lot of refinement, and there are bugs like losing sound on my A3D card for no reason (a known KDE problem). In fact, there's the rub - when it comes to ease of use, Windows still has Mandrake and the rest of the Linuxes beat hands-down. But like I've said before - with 10% of the development budget of Windows products, and buy-in from major software developers in multimedia, Linux could be a Windows killer. Just like UnitedLinux is supposed to do. Therein lies the problem - do you take the distro with the currently closest emulation of Windows' ease-of-use and push it to effective completion, or do you go and pool development efforts to make all the rest of the distros good? My hope is that cooler heads and better attitudes prevail, because many Linux distros and the fate of Linux on the desktop lies in the next move made by all Linux companies.
This is just getting stupid at this point. I knew Microsoft wanted to "control" the desktop; I just didn't think it was going to be that way literally...