I predict that when Moore's law "slows down" over a decade or so, the industrial and intellectual power can move to software and improve algorithms and system efficiency (for a while).
We see the same now with peak-oil on the horizon that the internal combustion engine gets more and more optimization and is driving car sales of all manufacturers. Something that had been a waste of time and money only 12 years ago (see VW Lupo 3L and Audi A2).
For example, I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
Technically, 20 years of java programming experience probably means 20 years of 8 hours a day, 230 days year, so about 37000 hours. If you were doing something with Java for your hobby as well (and having no other hobbies or a life), you could probably squeeze that into 6 years (of doing 17 hours of java each day).
Not that I want to proof anything here. Just "doing the math".
I agree. That's why everyone is now training...sorry, teaching Java in University courses instead of some other OO language from the 60s.
I think even the students now tend to think "If I would be taught OOP with Smalltalk instead of Java, I would be helpless in the real world."
Its true that without a degree I had to work my way from tech support -> sysadmin -> software qa -> software development, and my friends who stuck with schol went straight to software development.
It's a bit off-topic, but...
While that seemed certainly like a hierarchy of type of IT jobs to you, please don't generalize it.
Just to give you a counter example: I've got degrees, but I have worked my way from consulting -> sys admin -> tech support.
I'm most happy in tech support and they are in need of smart people at high levels as well.
So, you don't do back-ups, you just broadcast your data into space and hope some other civilization does something like SETI?
How do you get the data back and how long will that take?
No, this is not what we will see - because what is the use of an IPv4 address unless traffic can be routed to it.
In order for the Internet Routing to work we need hierarchies in the system - no good to have 4 Billion routing entries in your home router!
This is not how it would work. Anyone with IPv4 addresses to spare and IPv6 connection could rent IPv4 addresses out to the poor IPv6 users over tunnels (IPv4 over IPv6 in any form).
Basically the other way around of what we have now with IPv6 tunnels to test IPv6.
The problem is that the system is set up that only the rich can evade taxes. Factory line worker Joe Blow doesn't make enough to go put it all away in a secret swiss bank account, nor does he have enough to hire an accountant to manage some holding companies abroad, etc etc.
Absolutely untrue. Many lower paid professions can easily work off the books and avoid taxes, social security taxes and insurances. May it be painters, hair cutters, bar keepers, plumbers, bricklayers, gardeners or what not.
Depending on what numbers you believe the damage caused by working off the books is almost 380 billion Euros (500 billion Dollars) per year in Germany alone. A lot of millionaires need to evade tax to achieve that.
Have you ever tried to get help in a linux IRC channel? You're more likely to win the lottery and never have to use linux anyway.
Must be you. I basically learned Linux over IRC (many moons ago) and everyone was most helpful.
However, I know there are issues with people thinking that they can demand prompt help from the community without doing their homework first and acting like they somehow paid big bucks for support.
That's exactly the approach that makes most people who try Linux give up after a very short time. I personally tried it twice and found any problems I encountered making things work had no simple step by step instructions on how to fix.
If you are likely to give up any computer problem because there is "no simple step by step instructions on how to fix" it, maybe CS is not the thing for you?
I agree. The only thing you should do is to show people briefly the possibilities of the system/software.
They will either be impressed and interested and be learning it by themselves in no time or they are not really interested in the CS subject and you should indeed "not bother".
I think the parent could be scored "insightful" as well.
They are all very big planets far away from the star. The nearest/fastest has a 50 year orbital period.
So it moved like 4 degrees between the pictures.
We had a supersonic passenger airplane in the 60s, too. The DS was an expensive high end car.
What's more important is what is available now for everyone.
There is a cure for the high-beam problem.
For new upper mid-range cars, you should be able to get dynamic and assisted high beams.
The will light only into the direction of travel, not the direction of the car, they will optimize the beam range according to your speed and cameras will detect incoming light-sources and produce blind spots in your beam, so incoming drivers are not blinded by your light. Audi offers them e.g.
Why are the big space ships like the battlestar burning fuel on their main engines all the time to creep through star systems between FTL jumps? It's not they are going anywhere mid-system anyway. The only way to go anywhere in a timely fashion in the BSG universe is the FTL jump.
So, you want send "3.14.." to the Vl'h"urg on Gliese 581?
"Unfortunately, in the Vl'h"urg tongue this was the most dreadful
insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage
terrible war for centuries."
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I predict that when Moore's law "slows down" over a decade or so, the industrial and intellectual power can move to software and improve algorithms and system efficiency (for a while).
We see the same now with peak-oil on the horizon that the internal combustion engine gets more and more optimization and is driving car sales of all manufacturers. Something that had been a waste of time and money only 12 years ago (see VW Lupo 3L and Audi A2).
Has it been already seven days? Quick, find Frank Parker and send him to the plant.
You're right both times.
So there is "tech support" and "tech support".
For example, I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
Technically, 20 years of java programming experience probably means 20 years of 8 hours a day, 230 days year, so about 37000 hours. If you were doing something with Java for your hobby as well (and having no other hobbies or a life), you could probably squeeze that into 6 years (of doing 17 hours of java each day).
Not that I want to proof anything here. Just "doing the math".
I agree. That's why everyone is now training...sorry, teaching Java in University courses instead of some other OO language from the 60s.
I think even the students now tend to think "If I would be taught OOP with Smalltalk instead of Java, I would be helpless in the real world."
Its true that without a degree I had to work my way from tech support -> sysadmin -> software qa -> software development, and my friends who stuck with schol went straight to software development.
It's a bit off-topic, but...
While that seemed certainly like a hierarchy of type of IT jobs to you, please don't generalize it.
Just to give you a counter example: I've got degrees, but I have worked my way from consulting -> sys admin -> tech support.
I'm most happy in tech support and they are in need of smart people at high levels as well.
So, you don't do back-ups, you just broadcast your data into space and hope some other civilization does something like SETI? How do you get the data back and how long will that take?
...if they could do this from orbit.
No, this is not what we will see - because what is the use of an IPv4 address unless traffic can be routed to it.
In order for the Internet Routing to work we need hierarchies in the system - no good to have 4 Billion routing entries in your home router!
This is not how it would work. Anyone with IPv4 addresses to spare and IPv6 connection could rent IPv4 addresses out to the poor IPv6 users over tunnels (IPv4 over IPv6 in any form). Basically the other way around of what we have now with IPv6 tunnels to test IPv6.
The problem is that the system is set up that only the rich can evade taxes. Factory line worker Joe Blow doesn't make enough to go put it all away in a secret swiss bank account, nor does he have enough to hire an accountant to manage some holding companies abroad, etc etc.
Absolutely untrue. Many lower paid professions can easily work off the books and avoid taxes, social security taxes and insurances. May it be painters, hair cutters, bar keepers, plumbers, bricklayers, gardeners or what not. Depending on what numbers you believe the damage caused by working off the books is almost 380 billion Euros (500 billion Dollars) per year in Germany alone. A lot of millionaires need to evade tax to achieve that.
And the poor fight back by working off the books. Great concept.
Have you ever tried to get help in a linux IRC channel? You're more likely to win the lottery and never have to use linux anyway.
Must be you. I basically learned Linux over IRC (many moons ago) and everyone was most helpful.
However, I know there are issues with people thinking that they can demand prompt help from the community without doing their homework first and acting like they somehow paid big bucks for support.
Well, some "UNIX teacher" I know would even say that vi is already spoiling people. He always has his students start with a line editor.
That's exactly the approach that makes most people who try Linux give up after a very short time. I personally tried it twice and found any problems I encountered making things work had no simple step by step instructions on how to fix.
If you are likely to give up any computer problem because there is "no simple step by step instructions on how to fix" it, maybe CS is not the thing for you?
I agree. The only thing you should do is to show people briefly the possibilities of the system/software. They will either be impressed and interested and be learning it by themselves in no time or they are not really interested in the CS subject and you should indeed "not bother". I think the parent could be scored "insightful" as well.
Really? UID < 200K and that's the best you've got?
What were you expecting? "In Soviet Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth clones YOU!"?
"Siemens" as "Siemens" consistently in a single article? Where do people get "Seimens" from?
They are all very big planets far away from the star. The nearest/fastest has a 50 year orbital period. So it moved like 4 degrees between the pictures.
We had a supersonic passenger airplane in the 60s, too. The DS was an expensive high end car. What's more important is what is available now for everyone.
There is a cure for the high-beam problem. For new upper mid-range cars, you should be able to get dynamic and assisted high beams. The will light only into the direction of travel, not the direction of the car, they will optimize the beam range according to your speed and cameras will detect incoming light-sources and produce blind spots in your beam, so incoming drivers are not blinded by your light. Audi offers them e.g.
Why are the big space ships like the battlestar burning fuel on their main engines all the time to creep through star systems between FTL jumps? It's not they are going anywhere mid-system anyway. The only way to go anywhere in a timely fashion in the BSG universe is the FTL jump.
If you look closely at the window in the background, you will see the reflection of a DeLorean parked on the other side of the street.
Took them 24 years to find the cute babies. Just wait until they find the first full grown one.
It's a bit hard to see and I'm hardly recognizable, but I'm somewhere down in the ocean on the deck of a ship.
So, you want send "3.14.." to the Vl'h"urg on Gliese 581? "Unfortunately, in the Vl'h"urg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries."