Silicon Valley is expensive. New York City is expensive. SoCal is expensive.
Places where rent is >$1000 a month are not very hospitable to a $40K salary. Yet these are the very places that most CS grads are hired. Cost of living is a very important factor for any salary.
1. Preset distribution channels (often with a lock on the stores they are present in)
2. Preset publicity channels, which are often hard to even get yourself into the door otherwise. An artist without a label has a very hard time getting play on the radio.
They don't have a lock on these things but without their help you won't get in the door... it's simply too hard to be seen.
Recently I flew out to Santa Barbara for an interview with these guys.
I don't know what they use for their LAN but almost all of the PC's that I saw ran Linux. Dan is not attacking Linux for general purpose use. He is, however, attacking the formal security review procedures Linux has undergone (i.e. none).
The FAA certification that he talks about is a freaking insane level of certification. According to this article, the level at which they were certified (DO-178B Level A) requires "that every point of entry and exit in the program has been invoked at least once, that every decision in the program has taken all possible outcomes at least once, and that each condition in a decision has been shown to independently affect that decision's outcome. Complex Booleans need to have truth tables developed to set each variable (inside a Boolean expression) to both TRUE and FALSE."
I think that his point is that a proprietary system which has been certified to this particularly stringent spec has all the advantages of an open-source model (transparency), with a commercial support system in place. There can be no question that the code does what it is designed to do, as every possible branch has been tested, and every line of code has been reviewed to make sure it is not redundant.
His point makes sense, but his approach to this issue seems designed to be incendiary to get attention.
Once I had to make a Truth File for an OCR program. Basically this amounted to typing 20,000 addresses off envelopes into a text file, by hand. Not my idea of fun. But in my spare time, I became an Emacs whiz (macros helped a LOT).
Cornell actually has the RedHat iso's on a local server. We've got quite a bit of (legal!) software acquisition resources for CS majors in general, too.
And nothing is preventing you from setting up file-sharing on campus either.
It does apply to dorms. And they're already paying $40 per person per month to get it. That makes $0.02 per megabyte. Thank god I moved off campus and RoadRunner allows routers.
There ain't no such thing as human evolution (anymore).
I agree that natural selection is past its prime in developing countries, but I don't believe evolution has stopped, or that evolution will ever stop. I think people are evolving more by societal selection than natural selection.
In other words, now it comes down to who has more children, not who has children and who gets killed before they get the chance to (except those lucky Darwin Award laureates).
So geeks are currently on the road to extinction! It is up to those who can to breed like rabbits to prevent this!
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I guess that explains why the odometer on my Ford only runs up to 99,999.9 miles -- My odometer is happily back at 23,000 now ;)
New York City is expensive.
SoCal is expensive.
Places where rent is >$1000 a month are not very hospitable to a $40K salary. Yet these are the very places that most CS grads are hired. Cost of living is a very important factor for any salary.
Maybe Timothy is Roland Piquepaille!
Not exactly... It's more like "We'll give you a reduced rate if you let us publish your information."
1. Preset distribution channels (often with a lock on the stores they are present in)
2. Preset publicity channels, which are often hard to even get yourself into the door otherwise. An artist without a label has a very hard time getting play on the radio.
They don't have a lock on these things but without their help you won't get in the door... it's simply too hard to be seen.
I don't know what they use for their LAN but almost all of the PC's that I saw ran Linux. Dan is not attacking Linux for general purpose use. He is, however, attacking the formal security review procedures Linux has undergone (i.e. none).
The FAA certification that he talks about is a freaking insane level of certification. According to this article, the level at which they were certified (DO-178B Level A) requires "that every point of entry and exit in the program has been invoked at least once, that every decision in the program has taken all possible outcomes at least once, and that each condition in a decision has been shown to independently affect that decision's outcome. Complex Booleans need to have truth tables developed to set each variable (inside a Boolean expression) to both TRUE and FALSE."
I think that his point is that a proprietary system which has been certified to this particularly stringent spec has all the advantages of an open-source model (transparency), with a commercial support system in place. There can be no question that the code does what it is designed to do, as every possible branch has been tested, and every line of code has been reviewed to make sure it is not redundant.
His point makes sense, but his approach to this issue seems designed to be incendiary to get attention.
Once I had to make a Truth File for an OCR program. Basically this amounted to typing 20,000 addresses off envelopes into a text file, by hand. Not my idea of fun. But in my spare time, I became an Emacs whiz (macros helped a LOT).
I guess he forgot to put his website on CVS
Let's hope that it's not made by Belkin.... our thoughts forwarded to an 'opt out' ad every 8 hours...
Or a duck.
Cornell actually has the RedHat iso's on a local server. We've got quite a bit of (legal!) software acquisition resources for CS majors in general, too. And nothing is preventing you from setting up file-sharing on campus either.
$26.35 = ~.01 per meg for the first 2096 M but still
It does apply to dorms. And they're already paying $40 per person per month to get it. That makes $0.02 per megabyte. Thank god I moved off campus and RoadRunner allows routers.
this lack of funds is what must be driving good bands to produce loads of crap filler all the time.
I agree that natural selection is past its prime in developing countries, but I don't believe evolution has stopped, or that evolution will ever stop. I think people are evolving more by societal selection than natural selection.
In other words, now it comes down to who has more children, not who has children and who gets killed before they get the chance to (except those lucky Darwin Award laureates).
So geeks are currently on the road to extinction! It is up to those who can to breed like rabbits to prevent this!