Umm, actually it has more to do with the application that is running on the OS than the OS itself. The applications they want to run to do their CAD work run just as well on XP as Unix. XP boxes cost a fraction of Sparc Stations. Do the math.
As for Airbus, well, its your choice, but when I was taking my Sofwtare Engineering class the instructor explained that the most error free code on the planet had one error per 10,000 lines of code. Airbus was NOT the most error free code on the planet. It had millions of lines of code. And it has a tendency to overcorrect pilot corrections of the program's errors. Good luck landing if it screws up and the Pilot hasn't the time to turn it off before correcting it manually!
I teach MCSE courses down in Chatsworth, recently we got a lot of Engineers from boeing coming over for Windows XP classes. Why? They're dumping all their Sparc Stations and moving to XP on cheap Intel hardware. Its faster, and 2/3s of the applications they need run it already. The last third they were working on.
The IT people I talked to were surprisingly happy with XP so far. These were all Unix only kind of people actually.
The other thing they were doing were looking into dumping their Crays in favor of LINUX clusters. The comments were along the lines of how much faster and cheaper it was to put together a cluster of a 100 cheap Intel boxes than getting a new Cray. That, and they were all already familiar with the unix style interface. On top of it all, the GUI interface (I think they were running Gnome) was so much nicer than CDE on Solaris.
So Sun it getting it from both sides- Cheap Wintel boxes and Cheap Linux boxes. No wonder they finally relented and released Solaris 9 on Intel.
Yeah, the 450k would harldy hire 2 or 3 programmers and the office space for a year in Tokyo.
Some people don't get SW Engineering, do they?
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There are comments after this and before this that really show a total lack of comprehension when it comes to writing (near) error free code. (The parent I'm replying gets it, but doesn't really expand too much on the SW side of it)
Just throwing in a "realtime version of Unix" because it is a "reliable and robust OS" will NOT mean the program running on it is reliable Or robust.
When I was doing my CompSci degree 12 years ago the SW Eng Prof was on sobatical to NASA to write some new code for the attitude jets so it could dock with Russian equipment. There were about 2 or 3 PAGES of code. It took them almost a YEAR to write it and verify that it was error free. And then, when he came back he said they estimated there was still one error for every 10,000 lines of code in the space shuttle program. Not only that, it was the MOST ERROR FREE CODE ON THE PLANET. Translation: More error free than any Unix/Linux OS or program.
And now people want to just throw in a newer chip with a newer OS?! WTF are they thinking? There isn't even any evidence that would make anyone think that the computers were to blame for the accident in the first place! Fix what isn't broken or even related to the accident... Briliant, only a clueless legislator could come up with something that stupid!
As the parent to this post said, the chips are working fine, they are not overloaded, and the program is tried, true and tested. Don't fix what ain't broke!
This was the whole point of why IUMA.COM got started so many years ago. Cut out the record companies, and let the artists go direct to the customers.
I remember discussing this over and over again at the time and how everyone was sure the companies wanted to destroy IUMA. Then Napster came along and made them forget about it.
Whoever modded this down either didn't read it or didn't understand the point he was trying to make. The Record companies DO want control over the music and how it is distributed. File Swapping takes that away from them. They don't want a bunch of small tiny artists selling directly to people who take away sales of their mega-bands. They just want Mega Bands, and a cut of the profits these mega bands make.
It is so true that schools have gotten away from how computers work to what they commonly do. I had those same computer classes years ago (1980's) where we learned to program. It was all about logic, and was incredibly helpful in letting students understand logical analysis and problem solution.
Somewhere along the line educators looked at the statistics and noticed that it appeared most kids had a problem learning these things from computers. At least that was their conclusion (this is all my own opinion, formed from teaching in Taiwan and talking to educators in the US). So, get rid of that, and teach something more immedieate, like Word Processing.
Thier conclusion was wrong (in my opinion). That problem was the Teachers did not understand what they were teaching, and so their students never learned. So computer instruction in the 'States is going totally in the wrong direction. Just becuase 90% of the students will never need to program in C (or Logo or whatever) does not mean they should not learn it and the concepts. Just like Diagraming sentences and Calculas, these are concepts that get taught but 90% to 99% of the students learning them never use.
They have a blended wing design that is supposedly really hot. According to a Businessweek article some weeks ago all the airlines were really hot on it.
It would use the same terminals without any modifications.
It would be drammatically more fuel effecient (CHEAPER!)
It would carry more people than the Airbus380
It was revolutionary.
It was cool
It was good business
So Boeing's management basically ignored it. It came from Douglas apparently, and Boeing has a "Not Designed Here" mentallity. The only hope is that the US Airforce would like it becuase it would allow them to make Airtankers that could Refuel 4 or 6 fighters at a time.
I had a student come in who had WinXP on his machine and had just bought a nice new Sony Camera. The box said it contained drivers for XP. It did not, it had Win2000 drivers. He had installed them and hosed his machine. He got it working again and went up to the Sony site. No mention of the drivers.
Called them. They said "oh, that camera is too old, we aren't going to make any XP drivers for that one, why did you think the 2000 drivers would work?" it was less than a year old (sorry, can't remember the model).
Since then, I have heard the same story from a few other people who bought Sony Digital cameras at the beggining of this year. They built in obsolesence before it was even obsolete.
I know it was rated and meant to be "Funny" but really it is not quite so funny.
Artists that want the most exposure will probably stay with the labels. Piracy gives them more exposure as well, and keeps their sales up. The Labels don't mind piracy if it is not rampant and will work to get it back down to the levels it was at when we all had dual tape decks in our stereos. A little bit of spreading around of big name artists by casual pirates helps sales and helps keep no-name undiscovered artists undiscovered.
If file sharing would only share undiscovered talent it would be a REAL threat to the industry (such as what we saw when IUMA started back in the early 90's), as it is now its just an excuse for these companies to get more retrictive laws passed (DMCA) and keep people from learning about too much new and different talent.
Absolutely Agree with above post. The Space Station is simply too small a project to produce anything useful.
What am I talking about? Think back to the hay days of NASA, when it made it possible for all us Slashdotters to even exist by championing the IC and making computers to handle those early spaceships. The amount of money brought back to the American Gov't in form of taxes through the econmic technology booms that followed more than paid for the investment on sending some guys up to the moon to walk around and thumb our noses at the Russians.
The problem today is that NASA and the Congress is so concerned about cost cutting than just going for it. We need to get off this Rock in a big way and the results may be worth it. But just dinking around in a restricted space station without doing things we havn't done before will produce nothing.
Until NASA finds a destination and the American Public's imagination is stirred once more to support it, the Space Station is just a big waste of money.
I fear the only thing that will ever get us off this rock is finding some really frightening reason to do it, like alien contact or an actual asteroid actually on target to hit us. Neither of which are too likely. Maybe Star Trek could talk about all the economic benefits we saw from NASA in the 60's (Microwave ovens, computer pressurized ball point pens etc.) What would life be life without having gone to the moon?
That way we can battle it out and really see which is more powerful!
(sorry, just couldn't resist, and all I could think about looking at all those grey legos was, wouldn't it be cool to do a Star Wars Star Destroyer with them?)
When people are killed because they were caught reading something on the net using this technology, it is wrong. People every I've traveled say so (US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China), as well as people I've met from a variety of other places (Europe, NZ, Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, The Caribbean, Mexico, Africa and a few others)- and so it is not hard for Amnesty to say so as well.
I'm sure if you read a few papers from around the world you'll find a consensus, imprisoning, torturing and killing people because of what they have read is just plain wrong.
Just imagine if the police came round and arrested you because they knew you had been reading this very post.
Helping the Communists (I can't say Chinese, I know too many of them and so I know it is not a part of Chinese culture no matter what the communists may say) do these things is analogues to wealthy industrialist aid Hitler in the Holocaust.
My main problem with Music sharing services is that they discourage users from going out and finding good music. There is a ton of it out there, and IUMA was the first to make it widely available. But with software like Napster, and now these pay services, why bother looking for new, inovative and different stuff when you can listen to the same old stuff?
My wife lives on Rebates. So far, of the 30 or 40 we've sent in over the last year only one has failed to show up.
If I were you, I'd take extra care in filling out those forms legibily and completely. Then keep track of what you've sent. Most of the time you can find out the status of your rebates if you write down some phone numbers before you send off the forms. A few can even be checked on the Web.
The rules also must be followed. Many times the employees at the stores are clueless and think everything can be rebated. Store managers are only a little better, and only if you get them to read the forms, which you can do anyway.
I have some students from Boeing that are just in love with Linux. The Engineer department there just set up a Linux Cluster with 120 nodes for around 100,000 US dollars. They were running tests on it and found it was much faster than the Cray they had previously been using to do the same things.
The main comment that struck me was how easy it was to set up. The Engineer IT department is mostly Unix (they're all in retraining becuase they are dumping Sun Stations for Intel based systems running XP beleive it or not- becuase Intel chips are so much faster and machines running XP are much cheaper than Sun Sparcs (plus the software they want runs on XP)) so it was of course easy to set up for them.
Next they'll be setting up another LINUX cluster with maxed out dual or quad processor machines with more RAM. They're really excited.
5. Pirate goes into Theater and records the movie. He then packages and reproduces it for sale, and of course sells it. You buy it, pirate makes Money, you gain a movie and originating company/author gains nothing, where he would have normally.
So do you rack that up as a loss for the company and an actual theft?
This isn't really a programming error, but a user training error.
In the Airbus if the pilot tries to correct (use the flight controls) while the computer is engaged the computer will correct the pilot's correction. Unlike in a car with cruise control where if you hit the breaks it just cuts the cruise control. Many China Airlines planes have crashed due to poor pilot training in this regard. They weren't trained well enough to shut off the computer control before taking control of the plane.
I'm also sure someone can be a little more detailed than this, but it is, IMO, at least a design error that has caused hundreds of deaths.
As a side note, my Software Engineer professor refused to ever fly on a fly by wire plane, and was opposed to SDI simply because he didn't beleive that either had been or ever would be debugged properly. (if there is one error in every 10,000 lines of code, and it has 3 or 4 million Lines of Code, how many errors is that? His answer: too many to trust)
Jeff Patterson of IUMA started this years ago. I remember talking to him at the time (I was the original drummer in the Ugly Mugs back in High School) and him constantly worrying how it was the Labels were going to close him down. I went to Taiwan not too long after that, and when I came back found they'd forgotten about him and unsigned bands because Napster was distributing all their cash cows for free.
In a way, I think Napster helped kill the idea that unsigned bands could easily be successful by publishing their stuff on the Internet (and getting free airtime). I mean, if you can download all the Van Halen songs out there, why would you spend a lot of time looking for the next Eddy?
People go with what their familiar with, and Napster&Co helped keep unsigned bands down and the labeled bands up.
I don't know what the consensus is among unsigned artists anymore, but the few I talk to anymore agree it is hard to get heard on the Internet with all the file swapping of big name bands.
Actually most companies have given up on China as a market. They only see it as cheap labor. (www.feer.com:http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0210_17/p030chi na.html)
And actually the drop in the Taiwan market couldn't have been more than 7%, as the market closes down when it jumps either way more than 7%.
Your point that Taiwan has lost its importance (or at least the appearance thereof) is something I agree with. But I don't think you agree with me when I say that Taiwan is still considered by the American Government as a strategically important Ally in the region.
What you say is true, there are a lot of ethical asians out there. My wife is one of them. But if you want to find the people who complain the most about those unethical Asians, go to Asia.
These tests are being adjusted to take into account the cram schools in China that produce perfect socres on things like the TOEFL but have students coming over that can't understand a word of spoken English, and can't write a single grammatically correct sentence.
I have some Taiwanese friends at UCLA, and what UCLA does it put them on sort of probation (Sorry, I have to listen to them in Chinese talking with my wife, and my Chinese is certainly not as good as their English) for a year or two before putting them into the real grad program they applied for. Few get accepted straight out.
The other problem that this has created is that there are many Grad students from China that have very poor English but are hired as Teaching Assistants. This is a problem for student from countries where Chinese is not spoken, since the TAs cannot adequetly explain difficult subjects to them in English.
But the people I have heard complain about phony perfect Asian GRE scores the most are other Asians. Maybe that's only becuase I lived in Taiwan for 5 years and for the past 2 years most of the people I socialize with are from Taiwan.
nonono, 41 days after they've fired the sysadmin and when everything fails they'll just blaim the sysadmin. Happens all the time. They hire someone, he gets everything working perfectly, they lay him off since there hasn't been any computer problems in 6 months and then BOOM! 3 or 4 months later a server goes down. The consultant they fly in from Hawaii at $500 an hour tells them they're SOL because the guy they fired hasn't cleaned the tape drives in 3 or 4 months or swapped the tapes.
This is all fine and dandy because this will allow us to buy more of Sun's Products, right?
This has to be what they're thinking. The easier cheaper and faster computers get, the more of them we buy, and the more things we do with them. Back in the 60's people thought computers would replace so many people's jobs, but look what happened, it just created jobs.
What I see happening here is that fewer admins will be needed to support X number of machines, meaning more machines will be bought, thereby raising productivity while not actually decreasing the number of Admins working.
Its not just about managing the management software, but having people who are diligent and careful enough and understand the underpinnings and innerworkings of these systems so that data is not lost, and connectivity is maintained. What happens when the admin program encounters a situation it doesn't know how to deal with? etc. etc.
I think it would more likely be used on vehicles than people. Abundent power supply and the fact that they are far more difficult to hide at the moment (ever try to park a tank under a bush?)
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Umm, actually it has more to do with the application that is running on the OS than the OS itself. The applications they want to run to do their CAD work run just as well on XP as Unix. XP boxes cost a fraction of Sparc Stations. Do the math.
As for Airbus, well, its your choice, but when I was taking my Sofwtare Engineering class the instructor explained that the most error free code on the planet had one error per 10,000 lines of code. Airbus was NOT the most error free code on the planet. It had millions of lines of code. And it has a tendency to overcorrect pilot corrections of the program's errors. Good luck landing if it screws up and the Pilot hasn't the time to turn it off before correcting it manually!
I teach MCSE courses down in Chatsworth, recently we got a lot of Engineers from boeing coming over for Windows XP classes. Why? They're dumping all their Sparc Stations and moving to XP on cheap Intel hardware. Its faster, and 2/3s of the applications they need run it already. The last third they were working on.
The IT people I talked to were surprisingly happy with XP so far. These were all Unix only kind of people actually.
The other thing they were doing were looking into dumping their Crays in favor of LINUX clusters. The comments were along the lines of how much faster and cheaper it was to put together a cluster of a 100 cheap Intel boxes than getting a new Cray. That, and they were all already familiar with the unix style interface. On top of it all, the GUI interface (I think they were running Gnome) was so much nicer than CDE on Solaris.
So Sun it getting it from both sides- Cheap Wintel boxes and Cheap Linux boxes. No wonder they finally relented and released Solaris 9 on Intel.
Yeah, the 450k would harldy hire 2 or 3 programmers and the office space for a year in Tokyo.
There are comments after this and before this that really show a total lack of comprehension when it comes to writing (near) error free code. (The parent I'm replying gets it, but doesn't really expand too much on the SW side of it)
Just throwing in a "realtime version of Unix" because it is a "reliable and robust OS" will NOT mean the program running on it is reliable Or robust.
When I was doing my CompSci degree 12 years ago the SW Eng Prof was on sobatical to NASA to write some new code for the attitude jets so it could dock with Russian equipment. There were about 2 or 3 PAGES of code. It took them almost a YEAR to write it and verify that it was error free. And then, when he came back he said they estimated there was still one error for every 10,000 lines of code in the space shuttle program. Not only that, it was the MOST ERROR FREE CODE ON THE PLANET. Translation: More error free than any Unix/Linux OS or program.
And now people want to just throw in a newer chip with a newer OS?! WTF are they thinking? There isn't even any evidence that would make anyone think that the computers were to blame for the accident in the first place! Fix what isn't broken or even related to the accident... Briliant, only a clueless legislator could come up with something that stupid!
As the parent to this post said, the chips are working fine, they are not overloaded, and the program is tried, true and tested. Don't fix what ain't broke!
This was the whole point of why IUMA.COM got started so many years ago. Cut out the record companies, and let the artists go direct to the customers.
I remember discussing this over and over again at the time and how everyone was sure the companies wanted to destroy IUMA. Then Napster came along and made them forget about it.
Whoever modded this down either didn't read it or didn't understand the point he was trying to make. The Record companies DO want control over the music and how it is distributed. File Swapping takes that away from them. They don't want a bunch of small tiny artists selling directly to people who take away sales of their mega-bands. They just want Mega Bands, and a cut of the profits these mega bands make.
CNN, on TV has just reported they found some remains. Nothing on the website yet, but I'm sure it won't be long.
I think they said they found a leg. Thats about the time I turned off.
It is so true that schools have gotten away from how computers work to what they commonly do. I had those same computer classes years ago (1980's) where we learned to program. It was all about logic, and was incredibly helpful in letting students understand logical analysis and problem solution.
Somewhere along the line educators looked at the statistics and noticed that it appeared most kids had a problem learning these things from computers. At least that was their conclusion (this is all my own opinion, formed from teaching in Taiwan and talking to educators in the US). So, get rid of that, and teach something more immedieate, like Word Processing.
Thier conclusion was wrong (in my opinion). That problem was the Teachers did not understand what they were teaching, and so their students never learned. So computer instruction in the 'States is going totally in the wrong direction. Just becuase 90% of the students will never need to program in C (or Logo or whatever) does not mean they should not learn it and the concepts. Just like Diagraming sentences and Calculas, these are concepts that get taught but 90% to 99% of the students learning them never use.
In the end, educators are simply confused.
They have a blended wing design that is supposedly really hot. According to a Businessweek article some weeks ago all the airlines were really hot on it.
It would use the same terminals without any modifications.
It would be drammatically more fuel effecient (CHEAPER!)
It would carry more people than the Airbus380
It was revolutionary.
It was cool
It was good business
So Boeing's management basically ignored it. It came from Douglas apparently, and Boeing has a "Not Designed Here" mentallity. The only hope is that the US Airforce would like it becuase it would allow them to make Airtankers that could Refuel 4 or 6 fighters at a time.
I had a student come in who had WinXP on his machine and had just bought a nice new Sony Camera. The box said it contained drivers for XP. It did not, it had Win2000 drivers. He had installed them and hosed his machine. He got it working again and went up to the Sony site. No mention of the drivers.
Called them. They said "oh, that camera is too old, we aren't going to make any XP drivers for that one, why did you think the 2000 drivers would work?" it was less than a year old (sorry, can't remember the model).
Since then, I have heard the same story from a few other people who bought Sony Digital cameras at the beggining of this year. They built in obsolesence before it was even obsolete.
I know it was rated and meant to be "Funny" but really it is not quite so funny.
Artists that want the most exposure will probably stay with the labels. Piracy gives them more exposure as well, and keeps their sales up. The Labels don't mind piracy if it is not rampant and will work to get it back down to the levels it was at when we all had dual tape decks in our stereos. A little bit of spreading around of big name artists by casual pirates helps sales and helps keep no-name undiscovered artists undiscovered.
If file sharing would only share undiscovered talent it would be a REAL threat to the industry (such as what we saw when IUMA started back in the early 90's), as it is now its just an excuse for these companies to get more retrictive laws passed (DMCA) and keep people from learning about too much new and different talent.
Absolutely Agree with above post. The Space Station is simply too small a project to produce anything useful.
What am I talking about? Think back to the hay days of NASA, when it made it possible for all us Slashdotters to even exist by championing the IC and making computers to handle those early spaceships. The amount of money brought back to the American Gov't in form of taxes through the econmic technology booms that followed more than paid for the investment on sending some guys up to the moon to walk around and thumb our noses at the Russians.
The problem today is that NASA and the Congress is so concerned about cost cutting than just going for it. We need to get off this Rock in a big way and the results may be worth it. But just dinking around in a restricted space station without doing things we havn't done before will produce nothing.
Until NASA finds a destination and the American Public's imagination is stirred once more to support it, the Space Station is just a big waste of money.
I fear the only thing that will ever get us off this rock is finding some really frightening reason to do it, like alien contact or an actual asteroid actually on target to hit us. Neither of which are too likely. Maybe Star Trek could talk about all the economic benefits we saw from NASA in the 60's (Microwave ovens, computer pressurized ball point pens etc.) What would life be life without having gone to the moon?
That way we can battle it out and really see which is more powerful!
(sorry, just couldn't resist, and all I could think about looking at all those grey legos was, wouldn't it be cool to do a Star Wars Star Destroyer with them?)
When people are killed because they were caught reading something on the net using this technology, it is wrong. People every I've traveled say so (US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China), as well as people I've met from a variety of other places (Europe, NZ, Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, The Caribbean, Mexico, Africa and a few others)- and so it is not hard for Amnesty to say so as well.
I'm sure if you read a few papers from around the world you'll find a consensus, imprisoning, torturing and killing people because of what they have read is just plain wrong.
Just imagine if the police came round and arrested you because they knew you had been reading this very post.
Helping the Communists (I can't say Chinese, I know too many of them and so I know it is not a part of Chinese culture no matter what the communists may say) do these things is analogues to wealthy industrialist aid Hitler in the Holocaust.
My main problem with Music sharing services is that they discourage users from going out and finding good music. There is a ton of it out there, and IUMA was the first to make it widely available. But with software like Napster, and now these pay services, why bother looking for new, inovative and different stuff when you can listen to the same old stuff?
My wife lives on Rebates. So far, of the 30 or 40 we've sent in over the last year only one has failed to show up.
If I were you, I'd take extra care in filling out those forms legibily and completely. Then keep track of what you've sent. Most of the time you can find out the status of your rebates if you write down some phone numbers before you send off the forms. A few can even be checked on the Web.
The rules also must be followed. Many times the employees at the stores are clueless and think everything can be rebated. Store managers are only a little better, and only if you get them to read the forms, which you can do anyway.
I have some students from Boeing that are just in love with Linux. The Engineer department there just set up a Linux Cluster with 120 nodes for around 100,000 US dollars. They were running tests on it and found it was much faster than the Cray they had previously been using to do the same things.
The main comment that struck me was how easy it was to set up. The Engineer IT department is mostly Unix (they're all in retraining becuase they are dumping Sun Stations for Intel based systems running XP beleive it or not- becuase Intel chips are so much faster and machines running XP are much cheaper than Sun Sparcs (plus the software they want runs on XP)) so it was of course easy to set up for them.
Next they'll be setting up another LINUX cluster with maxed out dual or quad processor machines with more RAM. They're really excited.
You missed one.
5. Pirate goes into Theater and records the movie. He then packages and reproduces it for sale, and of course sells it. You buy it, pirate makes Money, you gain a movie and originating company/author gains nothing, where he would have normally.
So do you rack that up as a loss for the company and an actual theft?
This isn't really a programming error, but a user training error.
In the Airbus if the pilot tries to correct (use the flight controls) while the computer is engaged the computer will correct the pilot's correction. Unlike in a car with cruise control where if you hit the breaks it just cuts the cruise control. Many China Airlines planes have crashed due to poor pilot training in this regard. They weren't trained well enough to shut off the computer control before taking control of the plane.
I'm also sure someone can be a little more detailed than this, but it is, IMO, at least a design error that has caused hundreds of deaths.
As a side note, my Software Engineer professor refused to ever fly on a fly by wire plane, and was opposed to SDI simply because he didn't beleive that either had been or ever would be debugged properly. (if there is one error in every 10,000 lines of code, and it has 3 or 4 million Lines of Code, how many errors is that? His answer: too many to trust)
Jeff Patterson of IUMA started this years ago. I remember talking to him at the time (I was the original drummer in the Ugly Mugs back in High School) and him constantly worrying how it was the Labels were going to close him down. I went to Taiwan not too long after that, and when I came back found they'd forgotten about him and unsigned bands because Napster was distributing all their cash cows for free.
In a way, I think Napster helped kill the idea that unsigned bands could easily be successful by publishing their stuff on the Internet (and getting free airtime). I mean, if you can download all the Van Halen songs out there, why would you spend a lot of time looking for the next Eddy?
People go with what their familiar with, and Napster&Co helped keep unsigned bands down and the labeled bands up.
I don't know what the consensus is among unsigned artists anymore, but the few I talk to anymore agree it is hard to get heard on the Internet with all the file swapping of big name bands.
Actually most companies have given up on China as a market. They only see it as cheap labor. (www.feer.com :http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0210_17/p030chi na.html)
And actually the drop in the Taiwan market couldn't have been more than 7%, as the market closes down when it jumps either way more than 7%.
Your point that Taiwan has lost its importance (or at least the appearance thereof) is something I agree with. But I don't think you agree with me when I say that Taiwan is still considered by the American Government as a strategically important Ally in the region.
What you say is true, there are a lot of ethical asians out there. My wife is one of them. But if you want to find the people who complain the most about those unethical Asians, go to Asia.
These tests are being adjusted to take into account the cram schools in China that produce perfect socres on things like the TOEFL but have students coming over that can't understand a word of spoken English, and can't write a single grammatically correct sentence.
I have some Taiwanese friends at UCLA, and what UCLA does it put them on sort of probation (Sorry, I have to listen to them in Chinese talking with my wife, and my Chinese is certainly not as good as their English) for a year or two before putting them into the real grad program they applied for. Few get accepted straight out.
The other problem that this has created is that there are many Grad students from China that have very poor English but are hired as Teaching Assistants. This is a problem for student from countries where Chinese is not spoken, since the TAs cannot adequetly explain difficult subjects to them in English.
But the people I have heard complain about phony perfect Asian GRE scores the most are other Asians. Maybe that's only becuase I lived in Taiwan for 5 years and for the past 2 years most of the people I socialize with are from Taiwan.
Ahh, if only I had better ability to articulate I'd have said that just like that. Bravo, my hats off to you.
nonono, 41 days after they've fired the sysadmin and when everything fails they'll just blaim the sysadmin. Happens all the time. They hire someone, he gets everything working perfectly, they lay him off since there hasn't been any computer problems in 6 months and then BOOM! 3 or 4 months later a server goes down. The consultant they fly in from Hawaii at $500 an hour tells them they're SOL because the guy they fired hasn't cleaned the tape drives in 3 or 4 months or swapped the tapes.
This is all fine and dandy because this will allow us to buy more of Sun's Products, right?
This has to be what they're thinking. The easier cheaper and faster computers get, the more of them we buy, and the more things we do with them. Back in the 60's people thought computers would replace so many people's jobs, but look what happened, it just created jobs.
What I see happening here is that fewer admins will be needed to support X number of machines, meaning more machines will be bought, thereby raising productivity while not actually decreasing the number of Admins working.
Its not just about managing the management software, but having people who are diligent and careful enough and understand the underpinnings and innerworkings of these systems so that data is not lost, and connectivity is maintained. What happens when the admin program encounters a situation it doesn't know how to deal with? etc. etc.
I think it would more likely be used on vehicles than people. Abundent power supply and the fact that they are far more difficult to hide at the moment (ever try to park a tank under a bush?)