Since I figured the cost of the processor running at 100% was insignificant compared to the cost of the hard drive constantly spinning instead of spinning down during downtime, I created a small RAM drive on my various computers where I ran seti@home so that the file access wouldn't affect hard drive usage. This worked equally well on linux and windoze. The only other thing to do was to create startup and shutdown scripts to create the ram drive, copy the files over, and start the process and then to copy off the files before shutdown.
"One indication of this trend is that the parts for a DNA synthesizer --mostly plumbing and off-the-shelf electronics --can now be purchased for approximately $10,000."
Now that's a do-it-yourself project I'd like to see. Come on, one of you guys who spends way too much time on inane case mods can make time for this...
Also, what do you think about the comparison between Moore's law and the rate of genes sequenced. The only negative I see is that you'll eventually run out of genes to sequence on Earth (until the aliens land, that is.)
From the article: "There are very few people around now that haven't been in an MRI machine these days..."
Does this guy really think that everyone in the world is very ill and requires the depth of testing of an MRI? (Maybe he's just really old and all his peers have been through MRI's...)
From the article: "Phoenix said the DRM-enabled CME was not part of Microsoft's NGSCB, but that the technology was complementary. The CME would allow PC makers to embed digital rights management directly into the hardware, though they would have the option of allowing users to turn it off."
I think the authors (or editors) thought the first part of the paragraph sounded "cool" and "techie" or else why would they abbreviate something in one sentence and then write out the whole thing again in the next sentence...
PEACE
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
"The "info" URI scheme explicitly decouples identification from resolution. Applications SHOULD NOT assume that an "info" URI can be dereferenced to a representation of the resource identified by the URI, though some business processes MAY make "info" URIs resolvable either directly or conditionally. The purposes of the "info" URI scheme are the identification of information assets and the standardization of rules for declaring and comparing identity of information assets without regard to any resolution of the URI or even whether the information asset identified by the URI is accessible on the Internet."
In other words, the info URI's will not be useful for anything other than providing context and identification. There is no resolution mechanism in place, nor do they intend to have any standard resolution mechanism, which makes the practical use of these URI's almost nonexistant (as current designed.)
From the New York Times(no reg required):
"another federal judge issued a ruling that would prevent the government from carrying out the do-not-call registry, citing First Amendment grounds."
According to this, the FCC has no more right to enforce it than the FTC.
Darn...I should have posted the parent normally, not as an AC....I meant to turn off the karma bonus, but I checked the AC checkbox by accident. I missed out on some good karma.
From the article: "Internal people will refuse to transition to the offshore model because they have a certain comfort level, or they don't want their buddy to lose his job," Renodis's Manivasager says. "There has to be a mandate. Trying to build consensus can take a very, very long time." Manivasager has seen some relationships take as long as three years to get off the ground because the strategy was neither shared with nor embraced by employees.
The strategy was not embraced by employees about to get laid off? Ummmm.... how stupid are you if you think people will embrace being laid off to save the company a couple of bucks? (which then goes into an executive bonus, no doubt)
"The origin of the word "bug" has wrongly been associated with an incident where a moth was pulled out of a Mark II computer. Apparently, the term was used prior to modern computers to mean an industrial or electrical defect."
"The study compared applications built to run over the Internet on Microsoft's.NET platform to applications developed with J2EE, a development platform backed by Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) favored by the Linux community. "
So, they compared.NET to J2EE development and called it a comparison between Windows and Linux?
"favored by the Linux community"? Last time I checked,.NET didn't run on Linux!
"Monday's Supreme Court ruling will let companies protect their legitimate trade secrets from online distribution while still holding out the possibility that DeCSS might ultimately be deemed too widely distributed to qualify for that protection, some attorneys said. "
So the solution to all of this is to widely distribute anything you want to be free speech and eventually the protection will cease due to the wide distribution. So, with the widespread use of MP3s, shouldn't they no longer be considered protected and be freely available as free speech?
The longer I've been the workforce, the more I realize that these rankings are irrelevant except for bragging rights and being able to charge higher tuition for "prestige." I know many people who went to these great instituitions (I went to one myself) and many of them are sitting around in a dead end job boring themselves to death. Other people who went to community colleges or lower ranked schools are many of the movers and shakers of the world. There's no hard and fast rule either way regarding success and these schools. The only benefit I can see to the higher ranked schools is the networking with the elite of America who will get cushy jobs due to nepotism and that networking may pay off for you later.
At companies like SAIC where they have government contracts, you'll excel with a PhD (or any advanced degree). Government contracts reward companies based on the certifications and degrees they bring to the table. In most of the rest of the IT world, the PhD will be irrelevant. Skills are all that matter. Show your skillset and you'll be rewarded handsomely. Show your lack of skills and you'll be punished. Some doors may be easier to open with an advanced degree and some may be shut due to being "over-qualified", but all in all, it won't really have a huge impact on your career. The only exception is if the PhD is in very specific field that you are working in and it may have value there. Other than that, considering the number of art and history degrees programmers and sysadmins have, the issue comes back to skills, skills, skills...
In response to the comment: "One danger is someone doing a DDoS by sending fake spam"
From the article notes: "[5] The best way to protect against abuse might be to have the central authority whitelist every site by default, and then, by whatever protocol, take certain sites off. Because you can look at the sites before taking them off the whitelist, there is little danger of people abusing this system to attack an innocent site."
Slashdot Mirror
Google cache of it is here
I can't believe no one looked this up yet. Anyway, this link goes to the Microsoft "Q&A about iTunes" that the Register article refers to.
Since I figured the cost of the processor running at 100% was insignificant compared to the cost of the hard drive constantly spinning instead of spinning down during downtime, I created a small RAM drive on my various computers where I ran seti@home so that the file access wouldn't affect hard drive usage. This worked equally well on linux and windoze. The only other thing to do was to create startup and shutdown scripts to create the ram drive, copy the files over, and start the process and then to copy off the files before shutdown.
I just got sick of people asking me why I hated apple :)
Here
"One indication of this trend is that the parts for a DNA synthesizer --mostly plumbing and off-the-shelf electronics --can now be purchased for approximately $10,000."
Now that's a do-it-yourself project I'd like to see. Come on, one of you guys who spends way too much time on inane case mods can make time for this...
Also, what do you think about the comparison between Moore's law and the rate of genes sequenced. The only negative I see is that you'll eventually run out of genes to sequence on Earth (until the aliens land, that is.)
From the article:
"There are very few people around now that haven't been in an MRI machine these days..."
Does this guy really think that everyone in the world is very ill and requires the depth of testing of an MRI? (Maybe he's just really old and all his peers have been through MRI's...)
From the article: "Phoenix said the DRM-enabled CME was not part of Microsoft's NGSCB, but that the technology was complementary. The CME would allow PC makers to embed digital rights management directly into the hardware, though they would have the option of allowing users to turn it off."
I think the authors (or editors) thought the first part of the paragraph sounded "cool" and "techie" or else why would they abbreviate something in one sentence and then write out the whole thing again in the next sentence...
PEACE
Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People.
From the article:
"The "info" URI scheme explicitly decouples identification from resolution. Applications SHOULD NOT assume that an "info" URI can be dereferenced to a representation of the resource identified by the URI, though some business processes MAY make "info" URIs resolvable either directly or conditionally. The purposes of the "info" URI scheme are the identification of information assets and the standardization of rules for declaring and comparing identity of information assets without regard to any resolution of the URI or even whether the information asset identified by the URI is accessible on the Internet."
In other words, the info URI's will not be useful for anything other than providing context and identification. There is no resolution mechanism in place, nor do they intend to have any standard resolution mechanism, which makes the practical use of these URI's almost nonexistant (as current designed.)
Since the site is already very slow for images, I cached the large version of the final image here. Enjoy!
From the New York Times(no reg required):
"another federal judge issued a ruling that would prevent the government from carrying out the do-not-call registry, citing First Amendment grounds."
According to this, the FCC has no more right to enforce it than the FTC.
The website of the Wright Redux Association, the group mentioned in the article.
Darn...I should have posted the parent normally, not as an AC....I meant to turn off the karma bonus, but I checked the AC checkbox by accident. I missed out on some good karma.
From the article: "Internal people will refuse to transition to the offshore model because they have a certain comfort level, or they don't want their buddy to lose his job," Renodis's Manivasager says. "There has to be a mandate. Trying to build consensus can take a very, very long time." Manivasager has seen some relationships take as long as three years to get off the ground because the strategy was neither shared with nor embraced by employees.
The strategy was not embraced by employees about to get laid off? Ummmm.... how stupid are you if you think people will embrace being laid off to save the company a couple of bucks? (which then goes into an executive bonus, no doubt)
Since this seems like the type of site that will be slashdotted, I cached a copy of the bee wing image. Enjoy!
according to opera...
"The origin of the word "bug" has wrongly been associated with an incident where a moth was pulled out of a Mark II computer. Apparently, the term was used prior to modern computers to mean an industrial or electrical defect."
"The study compared applications built to run over the Internet on Microsoft's .NET platform to applications developed with J2EE, a development platform backed by Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) favored by the Linux community. "
.NET to J2EE development and called it a comparison between Windows and Linux?
.NET didn't run on Linux!
So, they compared
"favored by the Linux community"? Last time I checked,
...with prices in Dollars?
From Apple.com to avoid having to convert British pounds into prices that would be for the wrong market anyway...
actually, I just noticed that it's the same article, but hosted as part of msnbc...
according to this article: "Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation."
According to the article:
"Monday's Supreme Court ruling will let companies protect their legitimate trade secrets from online distribution while still holding out the possibility that DeCSS might ultimately be deemed too widely distributed to qualify for that protection, some attorneys said. "
So the solution to all of this is to widely distribute anything you want to be free speech and eventually the protection will cease due to the wide distribution. So, with the widespread use of MP3s, shouldn't they no longer be considered protected and be freely available as free speech?
The longer I've been the workforce, the more I realize that these rankings are irrelevant except for bragging rights and being able to charge higher tuition for "prestige." I know many people who went to these great instituitions (I went to one myself) and many of them are sitting around in a dead end job boring themselves to death. Other people who went to community colleges or lower ranked schools are many of the movers and shakers of the world. There's no hard and fast rule either way regarding success and these schools. The only benefit I can see to the higher ranked schools is the networking with the elite of America who will get cushy jobs due to nepotism and that networking may pay off for you later.
At companies like SAIC where they have government contracts, you'll excel with a PhD (or any advanced degree). Government contracts reward companies based on the certifications and degrees they bring to the table. In most of the rest of the IT world, the PhD will be irrelevant. Skills are all that matter. Show your skillset and you'll be rewarded handsomely. Show your lack of skills and you'll be punished. Some doors may be easier to open with an advanced degree and some may be shut due to being "over-qualified", but all in all, it won't really have a huge impact on your career.
The only exception is if the PhD is in very specific field that you are working in and it may have value there. Other than that, considering the number of art and history degrees programmers and sysadmins have, the issue comes back to skills, skills, skills...
In response to the comment: "One danger is someone doing a DDoS by sending fake spam"
From the article notes: "[5] The best way to protect against abuse might be to have the central authority whitelist every site by default, and then, by whatever protocol, take certain sites off. Because you can look at the sites before taking them off the whitelist, there is little danger of people abusing this system to attack an innocent site."