Why, with all this "They'll work for cheaper" talk are most of the people in the top U.S. school's graduate programs, NOT American? I'm at Stanford right now, and most of my friends from MIT, Berkely, CMU, and here are non-americans.
Obviously there isn't pay involved (we all are getting paid the same amount). And there is no visa troubles (students are automatically granted a visa when accepted).
So, think about this when you start ranting about "stealing jobs from Americans because they work for less".
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I can't belive that you are so open minded about other issues and then "make companies scientifically justify "shortage" before importing more H-1B's". Do you know how many hoops you have to jump through to get an H1B? I'm a canadian citizen and getting one is no cake walk. They run out of them in 1.5 months! And then you have to wait a whole year. Moreso, they only grant them starting in Oct 1st, how is my school teacher girlfriend supposted to come down to be with me while I work here.
I can't believe that you would fight for so much openness and then be so protective when it is in YOUR best interests.
For those of you looking transparencies, the new NVIDIA drivers are wonderful. Just enable the composite extention in your xorg.conf file, and KDE will start to look wonderful after you go into System Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Translucency.
To all those stanford students that don't know, if you are on a Stanford IP address (or have an account) you can access quite a few neat lectures on
http://scpd.stanford.edu
I know most of my classes are on there (but I'm in CS).
Please please please... everyone post your ideas on the website. If all of slashdot gets together we will make a difference. Just do your part. 5 minutes out of your day is worth it if you don't have to be a criminal to access your media.
How far do you take accountability? Should every decision a parent makes be monitored by someone? Should my own decisions for what I do be moderated? You have to draw the line somewhere. I'm not saying the line is drawn in the correct place, just that you need a line, below which you aren't accountable for.
It is possible to remove information that existed.
Say, you were a psychic and you knew I had $55 in my wallet. Then I come along and show you my wallet without you even asking. You now can't tout your psychic abilities because you clasically now know about the $55. I think by that act of me showing you, I reduced your information.
I hate having to leap on the keyboard to decide which OS to boot to on my desktop, so I have a grub boot floppy that has Windows as the default, and grub on the hard drive with Linux as the default. I want windows, I push in the disk, I want linux, I pull it out.
Linux likes to eat up the memory and allocate it for itself. You free memory is not an indication of what is actually free. Try opening a program, it will just be given some memory that was previously allocated to the kernel.
How many time have you wanted to uninstal a package and then done this:
rpm -qa.... and a thousand things run by.. then you have to guess the name of it.. or:
man rpm.... trying to look for the command to find out the package name that contains a specific file.
Then... after finding the name, you try rpm -e "package name", and it yells at you for some crazy dependency, like gaim depending on http or something like that.
No, I must say that I have wanted a nice package manager for all my extraneous packages. I prefer packages to source because they make uninstalling much easier but autopackage seems to fill some of the voids with regular rpm packages.
This is true but at what pressure? Under less pressure, water will expand and take up more room but still weight the same. The current model uses STP (if I remember corretly) which is an arbitry definition based on normal conditions at sea level on earth.
For the record. I'm a CPSC student at the University of Calgary and I'm very proud that my university has made slashdot TWICE in the past year, all due to Dr. Aycock but that is ok. Unfortunately, that is the only accomplishment this fine institution has had.:P
Here is the profs webpage and the link to his new course.
The prof is a pretty cool guy but his jokes are AWEFUL! (If you are reading this Dr. Aycock, I'm just kidding.:P)
This is the extact subject that my thesis is on. I already have a working implementation for a computer simulation, and for my master program I'm going to be putting it into radio controlled cars and see what they do.
It is designed for fair whether cites for starters, but I'm sure people will extend my work and make it more managable in less hospitiable environments.
So the long and short of it is, expect a paper published soon out of me with a working implementation, and then a few more years and we might have "test towns" set-up. It is happening sooner than you think!
I guess this is another triumph for mouse gestures.
If you try to do any gesture on that page with the "All-In-One Gestures" extension installed, a bright red bar apears at the top and grows with each gesture.
Maybe they didn't code for this, but is sure is noticeable.
What is wrong with this idea? The exact same thing happend with cars.
When cars first came out you had to be a mechanic or a very good friend of one to actually run one. Now, few people know if they have dual overhead cams in their engine. It just goes. People who (want to) know about cars, 'supe' them up removing parts and tweaking settings. Why shouldn't it be the same with computers?
If you had to be a mechanic just to drive, how many cars would be on the road? Don't look at dumbing down the user knowledge requirements as a bad thing.
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Why, with all this "They'll work for cheaper" talk are most of the people in the top U.S. school's graduate programs, NOT American? I'm at Stanford right now, and most of my friends from MIT, Berkely, CMU, and here are non-americans.
Obviously there isn't pay involved (we all are getting paid the same amount). And there is no visa troubles (students are automatically granted a visa when accepted).
So, think about this when you start ranting about "stealing jobs from Americans because they work for less".
I can't belive that you are so open minded about other issues and then "make companies scientifically justify "shortage" before importing more H-1B's". Do you know how many hoops you have to jump through to get an H1B? I'm a canadian citizen and getting one is no cake walk. They run out of them in 1.5 months! And then you have to wait a whole year. Moreso, they only grant them starting in Oct 1st, how is my school teacher girlfriend supposted to come down to be with me while I work here. I can't believe that you would fight for so much openness and then be so protective when it is in YOUR best interests.
For those of you looking transparencies, the new NVIDIA drivers are wonderful. Just enable the composite extention in your xorg.conf file, and KDE will start to look wonderful after you go into System Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Translucency.
To all those stanford students that don't know, if you are on a Stanford IP address (or have an account) you can access quite a few neat lectures on http://scpd.stanford.edu I know most of my classes are on there (but I'm in CS).
Only ATI cards? Sadly I won't buy an ATI card until their linux support stats to get anywhere near the NVIDIA one.
Please please please... everyone post your ideas on the website. If all of slashdot gets together we will make a difference. Just do your part. 5 minutes out of your day is worth it if you don't have to be a criminal to access your media.
How far do you take accountability? Should every decision a parent makes be monitored by someone? Should my own decisions for what I do be moderated? You have to draw the line somewhere. I'm not saying the line is drawn in the correct place, just that you need a line, below which you aren't accountable for.
I just reviewed the manpage.. looks very good.. except I noticed that my name no longer resides on the author section..
Just to let everyone know, Chris Dibonia (the poster), is in charge of the Open Source arm of Google.
This means he is the one that pays me for the Summer of Code, so be nice!
For anyone (like me) who missed the original:
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/08
But people buy Pay-Per-View Porn. Don't they know it is being tracked?
It is possible to remove information that existed.
Say, you were a psychic and you knew I had $55 in my wallet. Then I come along and show you my wallet without you even asking. You now can't tout your psychic abilities because you clasically now know about the $55. I think by that act of me showing you, I reduced your information.
Just my interpretation.
I bow to my elderly mechanical overloards
134% of Statistics are made up on the spot :)
I still have a use for floppy drives :)
I hate having to leap on the keyboard to decide which OS to boot to on my desktop, so I have a grub boot floppy that has Windows as the default, and grub on the hard drive with Linux as the default. I want windows, I push in the disk, I want linux, I pull it out.
Linux likes to eat up the memory and allocate it for itself. You free memory is not an indication of what is actually free. Try opening a program, it will just be given some memory that was previously allocated to the kernel.
"... likely to increase your odds ..."
to have the possibility to maybe increase the chance of an opportunity to perhaps increase the odds of raising your rank?
Thats a pretty definitive article
How many time have you wanted to uninstal a package and then done this: rpm -qa .... and a thousand things run by .. then you have to guess the name of it.. or:
man rpm .... trying to look for the command to find out the package name that contains a specific file.
Then... after finding the name, you try rpm -e "package name", and it yells at you for some crazy dependency, like gaim depending on http or something like that.
No, I must say that I have wanted a nice package manager for all my extraneous packages. I prefer packages to source because they make uninstalling much easier but autopackage seems to fill some of the voids with regular rpm packages.
I think you meant "N! - N * (N -1) * (N - 2) * ... 2 * 1" and not the last action that was run that started with N
This is true but at what pressure? Under less pressure, water will expand and take up more room but still weight the same. The current model uses STP (if I remember corretly) which is an arbitry definition based on normal conditions at sea level on earth.
Here is the profs webpage and the link to his new course.
The prof is a pretty cool guy but his jokes are AWEFUL! (If you are reading this Dr. Aycock, I'm just kidding. :P)
This is the extact subject that my thesis is on. I already have a working implementation for a computer simulation, and for my master program I'm going to be putting it into radio controlled cars and see what they do. It is designed for fair whether cites for starters, but I'm sure people will extend my work and make it more managable in less hospitiable environments. So the long and short of it is, expect a paper published soon out of me with a working implementation, and then a few more years and we might have "test towns" set-up. It is happening sooner than you think!
I guess this is another triumph for mouse gestures.
If you try to do any gesture on that page with the "All-In-One Gestures" extension installed, a bright red bar apears at the top and grows with each gesture.
Maybe they didn't code for this, but is sure is noticeable.
It seems that their stock hasn't been affect by this much. I wonder why it didn't just by $3.00 instantly?
When cars first came out you had to be a mechanic or a very good friend of one to actually run one. Now, few people know if they have dual overhead cams in their engine. It just goes. People who (want to) know about cars, 'supe' them up removing parts and tweaking settings. Why shouldn't it be the same with computers?
If you had to be a mechanic just to drive, how many cars would be on the road? Don't look at dumbing down the user knowledge requirements as a bad thing.