From the press release:
"We’ve also resolved a high severity security issue by disabling MathML in this release. The WebKit MathML implementation isn’t quite ready for prime time yet but we are excited to enable it again in a future release once the security issues have been addressed."
Byington and others said that was because roughly a fourth of the state's high-tech workers were employed by better paying software publishers, where the annual average salary was $181,700.
There is something wrong with their study. Right? Please say that number cannot be right.
Do they count all the high-paying execs at MS as high-tech workers?
This is the third or fourth post on the foreigners-are-cheaper theme. Do you have any evidence for it? I have yet to see good research on this.
I know at least 5 people on H-1s (with CS degrees) and they earn very good salaries, by any standard. This is just my anecdotal evidence, but it's better than nothing.
Oh, my remark had nothing to do with affordability; I agree that these are nice salaries by most standards. I was just relating my experience with Ph.D. salaries (so I was disagreeing with your estimates:). The bigger ones are of course on the coasts, in NY and CA. But I have seen nice ones in NC and WA (yes, Seattle is more expensive, but not much).
Very insightful comment, and I hope somebody else will mod it up. I chose to respond to make an remark: $60-70k for somebody out of grad school is not spectacular. For a Master's, it's satisfactory, and for a Ph.D. it's lousy. From my experience, Ph.D.'s in CS get $85k+, and six digit starting salaries are not rare.
That's not how they get the TV ratings. They actually have hardware devices in a number of homes (a statistically significant sample) and they monitor usage.
As mentioned above, you should explain your comment. Is wikipedia.org filtered out by your school? If this is true, then it's news, because it's outrageous. Submit a story to slashdot -- with some sort of proof, of course.
They typed in a valid URL to a page they were intended to be able to view.
No. They were not intended to be viewed, even if it was easy to get to them. This was not casual browsing. The applicants were in a business relationship with Harvard and had to obey the rules. If they couldn't tell the difference, they were stupid. Otherwise, they were unethical. Either way, Harvard did the right thing.
Are they weight sensors? I never knew. I thought they are electromagnetic or smthg. Anyway, they are everywhere in the US nowadays.
I saw something more interesting a while back in Los Alamos. They had sensors (right near the nuclear lab) that detected you way in advance, and would change the light to green before you got to the intersection (no need to slow down). But they seemed to work only on weekends, when traffic was low.
A curious coincidence needs to be mentioned as part of the chain of events which con-
cluded in the proof of the Riemann hypothesis. The feudal family de Branges originates in
a crusader who died in 1199 leaving an emblem of three swords hanging over three coins,
surmounted by the traditional crown designating a count, and inscribed with the motto
"Nec vi nec numero." This is a citation from Chapter 4, Verse 6, of the Book of Zechariah:
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts." The chateau de
Branges was destroyed in 1478 by the army of Louix XI of France during an unsuccessful
campaign to wrest Franche-Comte from the heirs of Charles the Bold of Burgundy. The
family de Branges performed administrative, legal, and religious functions in Saint-Amour
for the marquisat d'Andelot during Spanish rule of Franche-Comte. Francois de Branges
of Saint-Amour received the seigneurie de Bourcia in 1679 when Franche-Comte became
part of France. The chateau de Bourcia remained the home of his descendants until it was
destroyed by Parisian revolutionaries in 1791. The chateau d'Andelot near Saint-Amour,
which survived the revolution, was bought in 1926 by Pierre du Pont, an elder brother
of Irenee du Pont, for a nephew assigned in diplomatic service to France. This coinci-
dence accounts for the interest which Irenee du Pont showed in a student of mathematics.
The ruin of the chateau de Bourcia overlooks a fertile valley surrounded by wooded hills.
The site is ideal for a mathematical research institute. The restoration of the chateau for
that purpose would be an appropriate use of the million dollars offered for a proof of the
Riemann hypothesis.
Regarding the time it takes to get to the library: This is not important, because the article is about how fast a reporter can find the answer to a question. This is newspaper research, and reporters have people at their disposal pretty much all the time. And they have a lot of reference books easily accessible.
Slashdot Mirror
33 Thomas St is equally ugly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street (same deal, just replace Verizon with AT&T)
From the press release: "We’ve also resolved a high severity security issue by disabling MathML in this release. The WebKit MathML implementation isn’t quite ready for prime time yet but we are excited to enable it again in a future release once the security issues have been addressed."
That doesn't mean he's right. He sold a similar amount last year, and missed most of the growth in the stock price in the last month.
For example, scroll down on this page: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Shell/Batch/Q_22848900.html
Do they count all the high-paying execs at MS as high-tech workers?
I know at least 5 people on H-1s (with CS degrees) and they earn very good salaries, by any standard. This is just my anecdotal evidence, but it's better than nothing.
Oh, my remark had nothing to do with affordability; I agree that these are nice salaries by most standards. I was just relating my experience with Ph.D. salaries (so I was disagreeing with your estimates :). The bigger ones are of course on the coasts, in NY and CA. But I have seen nice ones in NC and WA (yes, Seattle is more expensive, but not much).
Very insightful comment, and I hope somebody else will mod it up. I chose to respond to make an remark: $60-70k for somebody out of grad school is not spectacular. For a Master's, it's satisfactory, and for a Ph.D. it's lousy. From my experience, Ph.D.'s in CS get $85k+, and six digit starting salaries are not rare.
a9 is using Google in the background;
excite and dogpile are metasearch engines, they use google and others.
So there aren't that many choices.
How can this be a good book when it makes such mistakes? If this book is for beginners (as it seems) the editing process should have been much better.
That's not how they get the TV ratings. They actually have hardware devices in a number of homes (a statistically significant sample) and they monitor usage.
As mentioned above, you should explain your comment. Is wikipedia.org filtered out by your school? If this is true, then it's news, because it's outrageous. Submit a story to slashdot -- with some sort of proof, of course.
Apparently there is such an effort in progress, and it was advertised on slashdot a few days ago.
You work for HP, right?
Here are some pictures that are not slashdotted yet: one, two, three.
They are taken from here.
Lots of people turn off their home machines at night. Granted, the intersection with the set of people running Linux is probably null.
There are some charts linked from a post here.
I saw something more interesting a while back in Los Alamos. They had sensors (right near the nuclear lab) that detected you way in advance, and would change the light to green before you got to the intersection (no need to slow down). But they seemed to work only on weekends, when traffic was low.
Is it too late for Fedora Core 2 to include it? Probably. Oh well.
Regarding the time it takes to get to the library: This is not important, because the article is about how fast a reporter can find the answer to a question. This is newspaper research, and reporters have people at their disposal pretty much all the time. And they have a lot of reference books easily accessible.
I don't know about using script-fu, but you can use convert, which is part of the ImageMagick suite. It comes prepackaged with most Linux distros.
I would have modded you up, but you didn't provide a link...