When I first saw that film, the plot seemed really familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Then when I saw Edward G. Robinson's character on the exercise bike running the electric generator, I realized with horror that it was "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison. For those who didn't read the book, the point of the book wasn't that they were recycling people, it was that they were recycling people and nobody really cared, in fact things just got worse than they already were. Kind of like the econonmy, now that I think of it.
It's fairly tightly defined, so you really can't experiment with it the way you can with C. I work with lock-free programming involving alternative forms of GC beside Boehm GC. It's not even something you can think of doing in Java. I keep mentioning JSR-166. That's not something somebody did in Java and then said "hey, let's put this into a native library". Those techniques came from outside Java.
If you are out of work, the idea of contributing to any FOSS project is a bit off putting, given that all these companies are piggybacking their business models on top of FOSS. I backed out of a open source project because of that reason among other things. The benefit in lieu of being paid would have been some kind of publicity, but the project was unannounced and on low priority, which wasn't as much of a issue with the other four project members as they were being paid for being full time Linux specialists.
for writing the multi-threaded server based software for these role playing games? They seem fairly biased towards having a game kiddie background and I wonder if that bias works against them.
The qualifications that people are expected to have these days are ridiculous. If you don't have all that stuff, you may not get a good job or any job at all. This forces people to sign up for a heavier academic load then would otherwise be called for by their individual abilities.
People don't go to school to learn anything. They go to get prestigious degrees and for personal connections. That's why people try to get into the top schools. You can graduate as a mediocre C student from Havard and get to be President of the United States.
There's a difference. If the number involved is bigger than you can conceive then you have to resort to counting, an algorithmic process. Most "primitive" tribes did know how to count, they just used unary notation. Pebbles, sticks, knots in string, marks in clay, whatever. It's hard to do unary counting in your head, since the length of the number grows O(n).
If you want to know what's the biggest number you can conceive of, use flash cards with differenct numbers of dots. Flash them for a tenth of a second or so, quicker than you can count. See what's the highest number you can accurately identify. For most people, it's between 4 and 7 IIRC, which makes us no better than crows.
It looks like the main beneficiaries were the winners of the Dutch auction since they got the artifically low IPO price. The Google employees didn't really benefit since they were going to sell at the market price anyway. The only benefit they may have seen would be from less dilution of their share value since less shares were issued by Google overall.
I assume people with conflict of interest and inside information, i.e. Google employees, were not allowed to bid on the Dutch auction.
Depends on who got those intial shares at $85. Remember, all the vested Google employees got their shares at $0 (or whatever their options were set at). The only entity being short changed is Google since it raised less cash because of that.
I could see it being an issue if the Dutch auction bidders were somehow locked in, but I don't think that was the case. Those bids should have been conditional based on the actual inital price since you're bidding on your actual perceived value of the company and the amount of cash raised affects that.
except in a few years all cars will have rfid chips in them (you have no choice, driving is a privilege, not a right). You could always walk, I suppose, except the Supreme Court recently upheld the right for police to ask for id for no cause.
AFAIK, the Fed is just there to regulate the "money supply", which is the amount of on going current transactions, the amount of money floating. The total amount of wealth is completely synthetic concept and the money supply is just a fraction of that. The Fed can control the rate at which these transactions occur by controlling the amount of free floating cash through its ability to set the interbank short term loan rates (I think that's what the Fed rate is called or else they're set by the fed rate + something).
Think of the Fed as the nice command for the economy.
There's that problem of for every action there's an opposite but equal reaction. The momentum imparted to simulate acceleration or deacceleration is going to start you moving relative to your original position.
They might try using tilt which is what some flight simulators do to simulate acceleration.
"If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide and nothing to fear".
How do people reconcile that with the privacy provisions in the U.S. constitution? Obviously they wouldn't have put them in there if they had thought there was nothing to worry about. I don't think the writers of the constitution were given to empty aphorisms.
is that I have more time to help out the clueless from outsourcing companies when they ask for help in some of the more technical newgroups. There's one ongoing right now with somebody who works for Wipro. Ironic.
I mentioned this place as originally supplying their own modded PSU's. Now they're supplying the new ones so you can get them without the mfgr's warrenty invalidated. Now if they'll supply external jacks so we can power external devices. And 120mm fans would be nice.
IBM has so many Linux developers that pretty much nothing goes into Linux without them knowing about it first. Anyway, the GPL would only apply to code that IBM distributed. If you copy GPL'd code yourself, only the copyrights transfer under terms of the GPL, *not* implied patent rights because IBM didn't distribute your new code under GPL, just the code you copied from.
IBM licensed at least one of its patents to Linux. So you might say that they own Linux to the extent that you can't really do a significant fork on Linux because although the copyrights might be tranferable under terms of the GPL, I don't think the patent licenses are.
if you aren't ready to diclose any ideas that you may have worked on. And I don't think the hiring company would sign an NDA or promise not to steal the idea for itself.
I think if you are in that situation, you either have to publically disclose everything to protect your right to your own ideas. Or lie about them and hope they don't make you sign a non-compete clause that prevents you from ever doing anything later on.
Anyway, in this job market, it's not like there are lots of employers to choose from for the best IP agreement.
if they think they have a valid patent that Linux infringes on is put everyone on notice of that fact and give a reasonable deadline to have the offending code removed. This doesn't make MS look like a bad guy, after all they're being reasonable, and if the patent is really worthwhile, seriously inconvienence or disadvantage Linux which is really what MS wants.
Again, this is based on the premise that MS (or anybody) has some valid patents. Unless you don't have anything at stake here, you really can't ignore that possibility. I don't doubt there are many that would disagree with that premise, but if you do, please state whether you actually have anything at stake or not just to see whether this has any bearing on your opinion.
Yes, experience counts but not the general all round jack of all trades kind of experience. It's usually pretty specific and involves new technologies which by definition very few people have experience in.
Here in MA, that ususally means not only have you written a Linux device driver or TCP stack (everybody has done that, right?) but for a new protocol that hasn't even been finalized yet. That pretty much narrows the candidates down to the 3 or 4 companies participating in the standards process with a dozen or so people involved overall.
I constantly amazed by the lengths companies will go to avoid actually training anybody. It must be some kind of game of coporate chicken where they burn through their window of opportunity trying to get somebody who will hit the ground running, with built in feedback making it all the more so.
You see job ads indicating those kind of situations which keep getting reposted, which makes you wonder how insane someone would have to be to take the position that late in the cycle.
The emphasis in research, especially academic research, is to patent everything in order to make money. But it is still considered bad form to mention in academic papers that you have applied for a patent or have one. I tend to look up the authors in the USPTO patent database to get an idea what they are up to.
There's also the problem of what are called blocking patents. Even if someone puts an algorithm into the public domain, somebody else can still file patents on slight improvements that were not immediately obvious to the orginator of the idea. Since those obvious improvments will occur to almost everybody and seem to be the natural and best way to do it, everybody will end up infringing those patents.
Well, we know that the kernel can be made to scale but what about the applications? The same issues the kernel had to face, the applications have to face also. For parallel computing you naturally try to avoid too much sharing by "parallelizing" the programs. For applications like databases, you are talking about a lot of sharing of a lot of data. Not all the techniques the Linux kernel used are available to the applications yet.
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When I first saw that film, the plot seemed really familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Then when I saw Edward G. Robinson's character on the exercise bike running the electric generator, I realized with horror that it was "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison. For those who didn't read the book, the point of the book wasn't that they were recycling people, it was that they were recycling people and nobody really cared, in fact things just got worse than they already were. Kind of like the econonmy, now that I think of it.
It's fairly tightly defined, so you really can't experiment with it the way you can with C. I work with lock-free programming involving alternative forms of GC beside Boehm GC. It's not even something you can think of doing in Java. I keep mentioning JSR-166. That's not something somebody did in Java and then said "hey, let's put this into a native library". Those techniques came from outside Java.
If you are out of work, the idea of contributing to any FOSS project is a bit off putting, given that all these companies are piggybacking their business models on top of FOSS. I backed out of a open source project because of that reason among other things. The benefit in lieu of being paid would have been some kind of publicity, but the project was unannounced and on low priority, which wasn't as much of a issue with the other four project members as they were being paid for being full time Linux specialists.
Open source doesn't mean free. If you can convince my landlord to take FOSS in lieu of money for rent, then yes, I will work for free.
for writing the multi-threaded server based software for these role playing games? They seem fairly biased towards having a game kiddie background and I wonder if that bias works against them.
People don't go to school to learn anything. They go to get prestigious degrees and for personal connections. That's why people try to get into the top schools. You can graduate as a mediocre C student from Havard and get to be President of the United States.
If you want to know what's the biggest number you can conceive of, use flash cards with differenct numbers of dots. Flash them for a tenth of a second or so, quicker than you can count. See what's the highest number you can accurately identify. For most people, it's between 4 and 7 IIRC, which makes us no better than crows.
I assume people with conflict of interest and inside information, i.e. Google employees, were not allowed to bid on the Dutch auction.
I could see it being an issue if the Dutch auction bidders were somehow locked in, but I don't think that was the case. Those bids should have been conditional based on the actual inital price since you're bidding on your actual perceived value of the company and the amount of cash raised affects that.
Either that or Microsoft installs should not enable any ports for incoming connections after an install until the latest patches are installed.
except in a few years all cars will have rfid chips in them (you have no choice, driving is a privilege, not a right). You could always walk, I suppose, except the Supreme Court recently upheld the right for police to ask for id for no cause.
Think of the Fed as the nice command for the economy.
They might try using tilt which is what some flight simulators do to simulate acceleration.
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If you are "running" and suddenly stop, what then? In the real world you have to work to kill all that momentum and slow down.
How do people reconcile that with the privacy provisions in the U.S. constitution? Obviously they wouldn't have put them in there if they had thought there was nothing to worry about. I don't think the writers of the constitution were given to empty aphorisms.
is that I have more time to help out the clueless from outsourcing companies when they ask for help in some of the more technical newgroups. There's one ongoing right now with somebody who works for Wipro. Ironic.
I mentioned this place as originally supplying their own modded PSU's. Now they're supplying the new ones so you can get them without the mfgr's warrenty invalidated. Now if they'll supply external jacks so we can power external devices. And 120mm fans would be nice.
IBM has so many Linux developers that pretty much nothing goes into Linux without them knowing about it first. Anyway, the GPL would only apply to code that IBM distributed. If you copy GPL'd code yourself, only the copyrights transfer under terms of the GPL, *not* implied patent rights because IBM didn't distribute your new code under GPL, just the code you copied from.
IBM licensed at least one of its patents to Linux. So you might say that they own Linux to the extent that you can't really do a significant fork on Linux because although the copyrights might be tranferable under terms of the GPL, I don't think the patent licenses are.
I think if you are in that situation, you either have to publically disclose everything to protect your right to your own ideas. Or lie about them and hope they don't make you sign a non-compete clause that prevents you from ever doing anything later on.
Anyway, in this job market, it's not like there are lots of employers to choose from for the best IP agreement.
Again, this is based on the premise that MS (or anybody) has some valid patents. Unless you don't have anything at stake here, you really can't ignore that possibility. I don't doubt there are many that would disagree with that premise, but if you do, please state whether you actually have anything at stake or not just to see whether this has any bearing on your opinion.
Here in MA, that ususally means not only have you written a Linux device driver or TCP stack (everybody has done that, right?) but for a new protocol that hasn't even been finalized yet. That pretty much narrows the candidates down to the 3 or 4 companies participating in the standards process with a dozen or so people involved overall.
I constantly amazed by the lengths companies will go to avoid actually training anybody. It must be some kind of game of coporate chicken where they burn through their window of opportunity trying to get somebody who will hit the ground running, with built in feedback making it all the more so.
You see job ads indicating those kind of situations which keep getting reposted, which makes you wonder how insane someone would have to be to take the position that late in the cycle.
There's also the problem of what are called blocking patents. Even if someone puts an algorithm into the public domain, somebody else can still file patents on slight improvements that were not immediately obvious to the orginator of the idea. Since those obvious improvments will occur to almost everybody and seem to be the natural and best way to do it, everybody will end up infringing those patents.
Well, we know that the kernel can be made to scale but what about the applications? The same issues the kernel had to face, the applications have to face also. For parallel computing you naturally try to avoid too much sharing by "parallelizing" the programs. For applications like databases, you are talking about a lot of sharing of a lot of data. Not all the techniques the Linux kernel used are available to the applications yet.