the highly-touted Cell will be available to consumers.
Sure, as long as you're spying on someone else's armed forces, analyzing their armaments via seismograph and taking pictures that you then encrypt to send to your superiors. Bet they'll be backordered for the holidays!
I had this at a company I worked for previously. It was under the auspices of a C language test (yeah, this was awhile ago), but after some fluff questions there was a block of code and two questions: What is this code supposed to do? and Why doesn't it work? And it was interesting how often variations of that same block of code turned up in the system we were writing.
Much better than the "quiz" I had to go through at a small start-up, which basically consisted of testing my knowledge of Java garbage-collection minutiae (for a Java app development position). Hint: don't test prospective employees in-depth knowledge of things that have nothing to do with the job they'll be performing. The guy they eventually hired was a JVM internals guru, but didn't turn out to know too much about performance tuning a distributed application, which is what they needed him to do...
There should be a considerable performance improvement if the core's are on the same chip die, since communication doesn't have to go through the motherboard.
If the bulk of your bus traffic is inter-CPU transfers, yes. However, if you've now got four cores and they all need to get to memory (or, heaven forbid, the disk), then they're all going to be sucking down bus bandwidth, and sitting in wait states until the cache refills. A single processor can waste over a hundred cycles on a cache miss, I don't even want to think about how long a cache will take to fetch a line when it has to share the same bus with three other processors.
<idea>Maybe up the CPU quantum in the scheduler on multi-processor machines, to reduce the bus traffic spent on cache spill & refill.</idea>
Pretty scary, they're teaching compiler design using "a compiler generating system". Good luck really understanding lexical analysis if all you're doing is writing a bunch of lex rules. And good luck figuring out how to write an optimizer w/o knowing assembly language...
Seriously though, this is obviously CS tacked onto an engineering curriculum (at UMich? Whoda thunkit?), and I can't imagine that a college that teaches a course in game development doesn't have some expertise at teaching assembler. FWIW, ISTR that the situation was about the same when I went to Drexel. For a list of courses at another large Midwestern university, check this out. Note CS 321, " Introduction to Computer Architecture and Machine-Level Programming".
I have NEVER given permission to an employer or potential employer to investigate any of my activities outside of work.
Well, I'm not sure when you last changed jobs, but nowadays it's pretty common for prospective employers to run a credit check on you. The reasoning is, if you can't be organized and responsible in your personal life, how likely are you to be reliable at work? Plus everyone has heard tales of companies digging up Facebook and MySpace accounts, old Usenet posts and personal web pages. HR departments are getting bogged down with all the due diligence they're expected to do nowadays.
Bah. HP changed when they shifted their focus from engineering to sales. They used to make some of the world's best scientific equipment, but they sucked the soul from that and spun it off. Likewise some of the best scientific calculators. Now their fortunes ride the tide of ink sales and everybody thinks of them as a PC supplier.
she's still criminally liable because she knew they would not be able to gain access to this information without resorting to criminal activities
Good luck proving this in court. Unless Ms. Dunn can be proven to have a background in privacy law or investigative methods, you've got a mountain of reasonable doubt to overcome. Sure, "pretexting" is obviously illegal, but if all she did was ask a private investigation firm if they could get those records, and they said "Sure", then it'll be pretty trivial to claim that they didn't reveal their methods to her, and she obviously took them on good faith that they would operate within the law.
The smoking gun here would be if the PI firm recorded the fact that they explicitly said that those records were not available legally, and she said "I don't care".
Why can't you run Klocwork on your own code? Is it in a language Klocwork doesn't support?
There are many static source analysis programs available for most of the popular languages (I've used them for both C and Java), was there some specific feature of Klocwork that you were looking for?
you are more likely to start seeing a degraded signal
True, but only at the RF level. Since it's a digital signal (presumably with ECC, I haven't taken a look at the HDMI spec), you'll easily be able to either reconstruct the stream (using ECC) or ask that it be re-sent. And probably, if you're getting less than some threshold of signal strength, the devices probably won't sync up, so you'll look at the little blinking "SYNC" light and the manual will tell you to move the transmitter closer to the TV. Either way, the actual data will retain its integrity. I wouldn't be surprised if you occasionally get artifacts like satellite receivers do, though.
Doh! Sorry, that should be "a guy who used to run NASA's Astronautical Measurement section". His group was the one that had to measure how close Mars was when it was at its closest point, stuff like that.
In my ham radio club we have a guy who used to run the Astronautical Measurement section. He gave a talk about GPS and DGPS one night, and finished by talking about CDGPS. Basically, it's so good you could fly a plane by placing receivers at the nose, tail and wingtips. It could tell you what the attitude of the plane was to a good enough extent that you could fly it remotely based just on the information from those four receivers (well, you'd need a control system too, but you know what I mean....) I forget what the resolution was, but ISTR it was in fractions of a centimeter.
More distributed, or more flexible. I think it might make more sense to have a "repeater-in-a-box" solution that could be hand-carried to any high point in the area and deployed temporarily. A repeater controller, transceiver, and antenna could be packed into a box that could easily be carried by one person (the two other guys on the deployment team would carry the batteries;). A repeater set up in this fashion could also be redeployed quickly if the situation changed. The system could also be kept in a radiation-hardened location to shield it from EMP, something that a fixed location is unlikely to afford. Of course, that may not be an issue, since you'd have time to replace a fixed station -- replacement parts would come in on the same truck with the replacement handies...
Funny, it reminded me of the film Rendesvous. Film director Claude Lelouch drives a Ferrari (275SWB?) across town. The town is Paris, and the trip across town takes nine minutes. Just. Fucking. Amazing.
who they are "striking back" against? US citizens? FBI sure does have heads up their asses.
FBI's charter is strictly domestic surveillance (and other investigative work). International investigations are the purview of the CIA. The NSA, apparently, can disappear anybody...
On one project I worked on, we did a user interface JAD session that consisted largely of hand-drawn diagrams. When the users made a suggestion, we stuck a Post-It note over the part of the page that needed to be changed and drew in the suggested change. Incredibly fast turnaround, and we weren't restricted to whatever we could render in HTML. After the session, we went back and coded up some mock pages in HTML and curculated those as an appendix to the meeting minutes so the users could comment on what the "real" interface would look like. It's not too hard to write up some JavaScript to wire a few dozen pages together to produce a prototype that exhibits a lot of the behavior of the proposed system.
When I lived in Portland (just after the turn of the century), Intel was one of the few stable tech companies out there. Toshiba, Hitachi and IBM all closed their fabs in the area, and most of the "silicon forest" was left to wither. I was unemployed for the first time in my life, and it lasted for six months before I picked up a short-term gig at Nike. If you heard the phrase "I work at Intel", you knew that within ten seconds someone would say "Is your group hiring?" or "Here's my resume!"
I'm just surprised that Intel could weather that storm and then shed so many workers now. I guess the competition's more fierce than many people realize.
it's exciting to see that it's finally showing some promise
I dunno, I listened to this story on NPR last night, and the NIH crew has been working on this for over twenty years. Their initial research showed successful results about 15% of the time, and this latest study shows successful results...11% of the time. Granted it's a small sample size, but I'm really not convinced they're making a whole lot of progress. Too bad, it's an interesting technique, I hope they can figure out how to make it scale.
You go to the liberal arts building, and you see people huddled in corners, with their face burried in books.
That's because they're fighting off double-barreled hangovers. If you want to get to know the liberal arts folk, go to a gallery showing or the theatre. That's their native environment. The engineering building is the native habitat of "IT and computer people".
One of my English finals was actually held in a bar. Fortunately, we all finished our critiques of each other's work before we got too, er, inspired...
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I had this at a company I worked for previously. It was under the auspices of a C language test (yeah, this was awhile ago), but after some fluff questions there was a block of code and two questions: What is this code supposed to do? and Why doesn't it work? And it was interesting how often variations of that same block of code turned up in the system we were writing.
Much better than the "quiz" I had to go through at a small start-up, which basically consisted of testing my knowledge of Java garbage-collection minutiae (for a Java app development position). Hint: don't test prospective employees in-depth knowledge of things that have nothing to do with the job they'll be performing. The guy they eventually hired was a JVM internals guru, but didn't turn out to know too much about performance tuning a distributed application, which is what they needed him to do...
<idea>Maybe up the CPU quantum in the scheduler on multi-processor machines, to reduce the bus traffic spent on cache spill & refill.</idea>
I would guess that most of them do. I bought a bottom-of-the-line Panasonic four years ago, and it had it. My Apitek "pen-cam", however...
I wonder if that's why they "couldn't max out the CPUs" — the bus was saturated.
Pretty scary, they're teaching compiler design using "a compiler generating system". Good luck really understanding lexical analysis if all you're doing is writing a bunch of lex rules. And good luck figuring out how to write an optimizer w/o knowing assembly language...
Seriously though, this is obviously CS tacked onto an engineering curriculum (at UMich? Whoda thunkit?), and I can't imagine that a college that teaches a course in game development doesn't have some expertise at teaching assembler. FWIW, ISTR that the situation was about the same when I went to Drexel. For a list of courses at another large Midwestern university, check this out. Note CS 321, " Introduction to Computer Architecture and Machine-Level Programming".
Bah. HP changed when they shifted their focus from engineering to sales. They used to make some of the world's best scientific equipment, but they sucked the soul from that and spun it off. Likewise some of the best scientific calculators. Now their fortunes ride the tide of ink sales and everybody thinks of them as a PC supplier.
Oh well, at least we've still got Tektronix...
The smoking gun here would be if the PI firm recorded the fact that they explicitly said that those records were not available legally, and she said "I don't care".
Yes
Why can't you run Klocwork on your own code? Is it in a language Klocwork doesn't support?
There are many static source analysis programs available for most of the popular languages (I've used them for both C and Java), was there some specific feature of Klocwork that you were looking for?
Doh! Sorry, that should be "a guy who used to run NASA's Astronautical Measurement section". His group was the one that had to measure how close Mars was when it was at its closest point, stuff like that.
In my ham radio club we have a guy who used to run the Astronautical Measurement section. He gave a talk about GPS and DGPS one night, and finished by talking about CDGPS. Basically, it's so good you could fly a plane by placing receivers at the nose, tail and wingtips. It could tell you what the attitude of the plane was to a good enough extent that you could fly it remotely based just on the information from those four receivers (well, you'd need a control system too, but you know what I mean....) I forget what the resolution was, but ISTR it was in fractions of a centimeter.
More distributed, or more flexible. I think it might make more sense to have a "repeater-in-a-box" solution that could be hand-carried to any high point in the area and deployed temporarily. A repeater controller, transceiver, and antenna could be packed into a box that could easily be carried by one person (the two other guys on the deployment team would carry the batteries ;). A repeater set up in this fashion could also be redeployed quickly if the situation changed. The system could also be kept in a radiation-hardened location to shield it from EMP, something that a fixed location is unlikely to afford. Of course, that may not be an issue, since you'd have time to replace a fixed station -- replacement parts would come in on the same truck with the replacement handies...
Funny, it reminded me of the film Rendesvous. Film director Claude Lelouch drives a Ferrari (275SWB?) across town. The town is Paris, and the trip across town takes nine minutes. Just. Fucking. Amazing.
It's pretty obvious that his company is not allowing him to speak. Now whether they are under duress from Apple Legal is another matter...
On one project I worked on, we did a user interface JAD session that consisted largely of hand-drawn diagrams. When the users made a suggestion, we stuck a Post-It note over the part of the page that needed to be changed and drew in the suggested change. Incredibly fast turnaround, and we weren't restricted to whatever we could render in HTML. After the session, we went back and coded up some mock pages in HTML and curculated those as an appendix to the meeting minutes so the users could comment on what the "real" interface would look like. It's not too hard to write up some JavaScript to wire a few dozen pages together to produce a prototype that exhibits a lot of the behavior of the proposed system.
When I lived in Portland (just after the turn of the century), Intel was one of the few stable tech companies out there. Toshiba, Hitachi and IBM all closed their fabs in the area, and most of the "silicon forest" was left to wither. I was unemployed for the first time in my life, and it lasted for six months before I picked up a short-term gig at Nike. If you heard the phrase "I work at Intel", you knew that within ten seconds someone would say "Is your group hiring?" or "Here's my resume!"
I'm just surprised that Intel could weather that storm and then shed so many workers now. I guess the competition's more fierce than many people realize.
Yeah, I spotted that as soon as it was on the front page... :/
One of my English finals was actually held in a bar. Fortunately, we all finished our critiques of each other's work before we got too, er, inspired...