This was my first thought as well. I'm surprised clusters and software goes under IT costs rather than engineering cost. MATLAB/Mathematica/SolidWorks are not an IT solution rather an engineering cost.
Go look at a ray tracing paper or a photon mapping paper. It probably cites Kajiya's rendering equation paper from 1986. Thin plate spline registration? Bookstein from 1990. Its not software like MacPaint, but software is built on the back of research, so why focus on MacPaint when you can focus on the research? There's a mountain of literature out there, and CS definitely requires people to look backwards before moving forwards.
These are businesses that buy in bulk and sell to yuppies. Heirloom seeds have become a profitable business so only the ones willing and able to pay the Google search tax even show up on the search results.
Lets not be so hasty to jump to the conclusion that Basically the scam sites were paying a bundle to show up on the first few pages in the search results.. You stated that those businesses are selling to yuppies and heirloom seeds have become a profitable business. This would indicate to me that yuppies have jumped into your niche, which you are very knowledgeable about. But, isn't it just as reasonable to jump to the conclusion that a large number of what you call "yuppies" have decided those "scam sites" are legit and have been posting images and links to their product all over on Pinterest, Google Plus, Facebook, tumblr, etc, etc? And that's driven those up the rankings? That those you deride as "yuppies" are really driving this new interest in seeds and therefore because of their far reaching followings on Pinterest, drive the search results? In essence, all those "sheep" are actually driving the results now rather you. Google may not have sold out, rather your voice has been drowned out.
I'm surprised no one, not even the article, mentioned that EDS was at one time owned by GM, purchased in 1984 and then spun off in 1996 as an independent company. After it was sold, GM contracted a lot of work from EDS for IT services. While 1996 was quite a long time ago, I'd imagine that the IT work that HP did for GM through EDS was very intimate given the nature of the relationship between the companies.
Imagine if the Justice League met as super-powered children instead of adults. And their gym teacher was Darkseid. And Batman and Superman pretending to be Spider-man with the mouth sound effects (Tchoo!) Its sweet without being over-bearing and hits that perfect note of what it is to be children.
I've supported one Kickstarter because it was a photography project by a friend who is a professional photographer, i.e. he's been published in Time magazine. I supported it because it was a thoughtful project with a timeline and real deadlines. Once the funding was met and he started the project, he gave status updates every few days and completed the project on time. I was happy to participate.
Every other offer that's been solicited by friends I've turned down. The most recent one, which did get funding, was a friend who started a handmade clothing company. This person is the CEO and chief designer. The company has had 3 employees on and off over the last 3 years. A shipping deadline was missed last Christmas to deliver handbags, scarves and laptop bags. This person has taken donations from friends and family and given them receipts so they can claim them on their taxes, but the company is not a 503c. The Facebook message from the launch was "If this doesn't get funded, my company is going out of business."
I feel like Kickstarter is a great idea, but the latter has become the norm for me. "I've completely screwed up as an owner, but I'm not really begging if its on Kickstarter." Or "I have this idea, but I have no idea how to execute it but I need money, off to Kickstarter!"
The booths in Illinois with "no human operator present" existed before I-PASS became so dominant. I remember running a few toll baskets in the suburbs in 2000 because I didn't have any change.
"It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation," which eschews parentheses and equal signs in an effort to run long calculations more efficiently."
I didn't know RPN was an operating system. Perhaps that's what they mean by unconventional.
The keyword seems to be "oversight," or lack thereof. "Ed" was one of six workers at a $250 million retailer in Pa. "Ed" has a boss and he/she only had to look after 6 people. Six people! How do you not know what Ed is doing? And as a company that has $250 million in revenue, how are there only six people?
"Sally" had "privilege escalation" at a Fortune 500 company. Why? Because she puts out fire and was "special." She worked from home. Where was her boss in all this? Why didn't that person realize that perhaps "Sally" shouldn't have had "privilege escalation?"
In all of this, where were the managers? Aren't they supposed to manage resource? Shouldn't they be held accountable for lack of oversight?
I couldn't say it any better myself and if I had moderator points I'd give you some. Its not just "normal" students who fall into the trap of calling anything related to a computer "Computer Science".
Harvard has need based financial aid. If the family makes less than $60k/yr then tuition is covered. From $60k-$120k its 0-10% of family income, while $120k-$180k its 10% of income. This is all in grants not loans so no money has to be paid back.
How is this any different from email on a server? Most people don't do backups of their email relying on Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/RIM/Exchange to always have access to it. This isn't a problem with Facebook: this is a problem with people. Nobody backs up anything.
I think I get the "guilt-ridden nonsense" the parent is talking about. At the bottom of it is the West's (and by West I mean US, Canada, and Europe) perception of everyone else as third world and somehow the West has to "save" the rest of the world.
So, the depiction of cartoonists in "Asia"* as being in what can be aptly described as one of Dante's circles of hell is really condescending. It is a trigger for Western guilt; that idea that the rest of the world is suffering for us, when in reality, a place like South Korea isn't much different from the US.
To put things in a different perspective, S. Korea's GDP is about the same as Spain and they have about the same number of people (49M S. Koreas vs 46M Spaniards). But, you would never depict Spain in the same light as South Korea.
*As an aside, as a person of Korean descent I already knew that the Simpsons was produced in S. Korea, and wasn't particularly happy with the depiction either. Maybe Banksy has been to that side of the planet and was really playing it tongue in cheek, but I doubt it. For me it fits hand in hand with what I've noticed about many of my white friends: Asia is still some ass backwards, third world continent, and differentiating between the cultures and countries is too hard. Its easier to lump all black hair, chinky eyed people together to form a homogeneous group than to understand even the basic history of the region.
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Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen Leiserson Rivest and Stein.
"For all your whining about how the government can't do anything right, you little twits haven't grown up on top of a waste chemical disposal trench."
I remember when Lake Erie was on fire, and I still KNOW the government cant do anything right.
Lake Erie never caught fire, it almost "died" because of algae blooms though. The Cuyahoga River caught on fire.
This was my first thought as well. I'm surprised clusters and software goes under IT costs rather than engineering cost. MATLAB/Mathematica/SolidWorks are not an IT solution rather an engineering cost.
I hovered over the link and thought "Man Years? What the hell kind of project title is that? Oh, wait..."
Go look at a ray tracing paper or a photon mapping paper. It probably cites Kajiya's rendering equation paper from 1986. Thin plate spline registration? Bookstein from 1990. Its not software like MacPaint, but software is built on the back of research, so why focus on MacPaint when you can focus on the research? There's a mountain of literature out there, and CS definitely requires people to look backwards before moving forwards.
These are businesses that buy in bulk and sell to yuppies.
Heirloom seeds have become a profitable business so only the ones willing and able to pay the Google search tax even show up on the search results.
Lets not be so hasty to jump to the conclusion that Basically the scam sites were paying a bundle to show up on the first few pages in the search results.. You stated that those businesses are selling to yuppies and heirloom seeds have become a profitable business. This would indicate to me that yuppies have jumped into your niche, which you are very knowledgeable about. But, isn't it just as reasonable to jump to the conclusion that a large number of what you call "yuppies" have decided those "scam sites" are legit and have been posting images and links to their product all over on Pinterest, Google Plus, Facebook, tumblr, etc, etc? And that's driven those up the rankings? That those you deride as "yuppies" are really driving this new interest in seeds and therefore because of their far reaching followings on Pinterest, drive the search results? In essence, all those "sheep" are actually driving the results now rather you. Google may not have sold out, rather your voice has been drowned out.
I'm surprised no one, not even the article, mentioned that EDS was at one time owned by GM, purchased in 1984 and then spun off in 1996 as an independent company. After it was sold, GM contracted a lot of work from EDS for IT services. While 1996 was quite a long time ago, I'd imagine that the IT work that HP did for GM through EDS was very intimate given the nature of the relationship between the companies.
Imagine if the Justice League met as super-powered children instead of adults. And their gym teacher was Darkseid. And Batman and Superman pretending to be Spider-man with the mouth sound effects (Tchoo!) Its sweet without being over-bearing and hits that perfect note of what it is to be children.
http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/
I've supported one Kickstarter because it was a photography project by a friend who is a professional photographer, i.e. he's been published in Time magazine. I supported it because it was a thoughtful project with a timeline and real deadlines. Once the funding was met and he started the project, he gave status updates every few days and completed the project on time. I was happy to participate.
Every other offer that's been solicited by friends I've turned down. The most recent one, which did get funding, was a friend who started a handmade clothing company. This person is the CEO and chief designer. The company has had 3 employees on and off over the last 3 years. A shipping deadline was missed last Christmas to deliver handbags, scarves and laptop bags. This person has taken donations from friends and family and given them receipts so they can claim them on their taxes, but the company is not a 503c. The Facebook message from the launch was "If this doesn't get funded, my company is going out of business."
I feel like Kickstarter is a great idea, but the latter has become the norm for me. "I've completely screwed up as an owner, but I'm not really begging if its on Kickstarter." Or "I have this idea, but I have no idea how to execute it but I need money, off to Kickstarter!"
The booths in Illinois with "no human operator present" existed before I-PASS became so dominant. I remember running a few toll baskets in the suburbs in 2000 because I didn't have any change.
Or emit Lucas smoke.
Ummm, Guppy? You didn't post anonymously.
Albeit, this isn't new(we suspended a lot of rights during WWII, at least. see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment [wikipedia.org] ), but we just need to get rid of this idea)
Yeah, the Americans weren't the only ones to intern ethnically Japanese portions of the population. The Canadians did as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Canadian_internment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obasan
Hmmm, condenses my thoughts on the subject into two succinct sentences. Well done.
You'll have to be more specific. Everything's sinful in Utah.
Wasn't this every CS department though in the 80's and the 90's? AI in that time was all about expert systems and predicate calculus.
"It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation," which eschews parentheses and equal signs in an effort to run long calculations more efficiently."
I didn't know RPN was an operating system. Perhaps that's what they mean by unconventional.
UPS and the EPA announced something very similar two years ago.
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-28/tech/ups.hybrid.trucks_1_hybrid-trucks-hydraulic-hybrid-hydraulic-fluid?_s=PM:TECH
The keyword seems to be "oversight," or lack thereof. "Ed" was one of six workers at a $250 million retailer in Pa. "Ed" has a boss and he/she only had to look after 6 people. Six people! How do you not know what Ed is doing? And as a company that has $250 million in revenue, how are there only six people?
"Sally" had "privilege escalation" at a Fortune 500 company. Why? Because she puts out fire and was "special." She worked from home. Where was her boss in all this? Why didn't that person realize that perhaps "Sally" shouldn't have had "privilege escalation?"
In all of this, where were the managers? Aren't they supposed to manage resource? Shouldn't they be held accountable for lack of oversight?
This isn't true though. For example, CVE-2010-0840 is a Java hashmap vulnerability that has been used, in the wild. "A user only needs to browse to an infected webpage, and the exploit pulls down a series of .exe files"
http://ics.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9916
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?name=Exploit:Java/CVE-2010-0840.A&threatid=2147640548
Why would we declare war on an Ivy League school?
I couldn't say it any better myself and if I had moderator points I'd give you some. Its not just "normal" students who fall into the trap of calling anything related to a computer "Computer Science".
Harvard has need based financial aid. If the family makes less than $60k/yr then tuition is covered. From $60k-$120k its 0-10% of family income, while $120k-$180k its 10% of income. This is all in grants not loans so no money has to be paid back.
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k51861&pageid=icb.page248616
Seems a little invasive, but no more so than other need based loans.
How is this any different from email on a server? Most people don't do backups of their email relying on Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/RIM/Exchange to always have access to it. This isn't a problem with Facebook: this is a problem with people. Nobody backs up anything.
I think I get the "guilt-ridden nonsense" the parent is talking about. At the bottom of it is the West's (and by West I mean US, Canada, and Europe) perception of everyone else as third world and somehow the West has to "save" the rest of the world.
So, the depiction of cartoonists in "Asia"* as being in what can be aptly described as one of Dante's circles of hell is really condescending. It is a trigger for Western guilt; that idea that the rest of the world is suffering for us, when in reality, a place like South Korea isn't much different from the US.
To put things in a different perspective, S. Korea's GDP is about the same as Spain and they have about the same number of people (49M S. Koreas vs 46M Spaniards). But, you would never depict Spain in the same light as South Korea.
*As an aside, as a person of Korean descent I already knew that the Simpsons was produced in S. Korea, and wasn't particularly happy with the depiction either. Maybe Banksy has been to that side of the planet and was really playing it tongue in cheek, but I doubt it. For me it fits hand in hand with what I've noticed about many of my white friends: Asia is still some ass backwards, third world continent, and differentiating between the cultures and countries is too hard. Its easier to lump all black hair, chinky eyed people together to form a homogeneous group than to understand even the basic history of the region.