Well if you use SSE intrinsics you just lost one advantage of programming in C which is portability across different hardware architectures. OpenCL is supposed to help with that (e.g. float4, int4) but I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that in plain standard C. The fact is all instruction sets in common use today have vector instructions (SSE, NEON, AltiVec, VIS) and they can easily be emulated on scalar architectures... So why not add vector support?
One issue is that the world is not a VAX anymore. Assembly language constructs can be way more complex than a lot of C statements. e.g. standard C has no concept of vector instructions.
Yeah the same thing happened to me. If you have to do a lot of interviews it doesn't mean the corporation is an awesome place to be. Just that it is so large that it has people who have to justify their paychecks by spending days interviewing people. Not exactly a sign of a productive environment I may add...
There are a lot of people buying high-end graphics cards for Linux workstations or even clusters with tens of thousands of nodes so if you don't release drivers for them you are losing a substantial chunk of the technical computing market.
No kidding. One of the things I ask for is to look at the work environment. One of the places I interviewed for said they couldn't show me the work environment because it was a basement with a high security lock. Needless to say I refused the job on the spot. Who the heck would want to work in a prison environment like that?
Imagine getting a call from a head hunter who wants you to leave your current job to go to work for another company (doing the exact same thing) for either less money or the same money.
That happened to me once. It is amusing to say the least.
Quite often the issue isn't missed meals but a loss of status in some way. She got used to a certain level of income and won't stand for anything less. While being saddled with a mountain of debt you wouldn't have contracted otherwise is a good motive (I have heard of people who cancelled their weddings because of it) quite often people just aren't willing to suffer any sort of temporary setback. The incessant yapping the priest tells you before you get married is to remind you that you just can't expect things to go well all the time. The thing is most people just ignore it.
Some jobs are highly seasonal. The construction business is mostly stalled when its raining or snowing so it is hardly surprising the plumber can't get work in the winter. Either he switches to a totally different job in the winter (I know people like this who have two jobs) or he basically stops working and rests in the winter.
Uh? Only if we are talking about a clueless mismanager. A good manager would understand which skills you really need to do the job and if you have prior experience which is also helpful. If we are talking about working under a mismanager I would prefer to be working elsewhere.
I had the same issue when I was applying for a Java programmer job. I spent most of my life programming in C/C++ and a lot of those HR types couldn't be convinced that if you could do object oriented programming in C++ then going to Java wouldn't be difficult. After 6 months I was doing better than the guys which supposedly had 2 years of experience on the job.
Babylon 5 is awesome but it only gets interesting in the 2nd or 3rd season. The first season is a mixed bag of concepts that are only fleshed out later.
Can't remember one good SF TV show running right now. Most SF anything I have seen recently is either anime or reruns.
Probably because the Japanese PC market has traditionally been smaller (as a percentage of the population) than in other countries. A lot of people have consoles or cellphones but personal computers used to be (and probably still are) more rare to come by. If less people have access to general purpose computers it is hardly surprising there are less programmers (including good programmers). There is some Japanese software I would call good however. The CinemaCraft Encoder and Nikon's Capture NX software come to mind. The Ruby programming language was also designed by a Japanese. Then there is their games software industry which is also pretty successful.
Creative is not a Japanese company. Creative was founded in Singapore.
They probably only started recruiting women for astronaut duty a short time ago so they had less of a recruitment pool. The Chinese have allegedly been training male astronauts over a decade before they even made a manned space flight so no surprises there. Why men? Well there are more of them that you can recruit by going to the military airplane pilot roster. These people already have done extensive physical and psychological tests so it is easier to screen for possible candidates.
Never heard anything about 'exploding teeth' myself. What I did hear at one time was that in high-G situations where you had lead fillings (do they even use those anymore?) the lead could cause damage to the tooth or even blood poisoning.
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Uh Saddam's regime was not theocratic. Quite the opposite. He was a genocidal dictator but that is about it.
Well if you use SSE intrinsics you just lost one advantage of programming in C which is portability across different hardware architectures. OpenCL is supposed to help with that (e.g. float4, int4) but I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to do that in plain standard C. The fact is all instruction sets in common use today have vector instructions (SSE, NEON, AltiVec, VIS) and they can easily be emulated on scalar architectures... So why not add vector support?
I already did that. Well it was both spite and wanting an Android device to do development on. I don't do development for walled gardens like iOS.
The rotating heat sink of death seems ok to me. Now can we get a working fusion reactor Sandia?
One issue is that the world is not a VAX anymore. Assembly language constructs can be way more complex than a lot of C statements. e.g. standard C has no concept of vector instructions.
Uh recursion uses up the stack so you are in fact using up temporary storage.
Yeah the same thing happened to me. If you have to do a lot of interviews it doesn't mean the corporation is an awesome place to be. Just that it is so large that it has people who have to justify their paychecks by spending days interviewing people. Not exactly a sign of a productive environment I may add...
Would a regular encyclopedia even have much coverage regarding a singer besides the dates they were born and dead plus the music style?
There are a lot of people buying high-end graphics cards for Linux workstations or even clusters with tens of thousands of nodes so if you don't release drivers for them you are losing a substantial chunk of the technical computing market.
That is the typical tripe. Two platter HDDs were always cheaper in $/GB compared with single platter ones.
If that person works more but disrupts the other people who are working it can end up as a net drag in productivity rather than the other way around.
No kidding. One of the things I ask for is to look at the work environment. One of the places I interviewed for said they couldn't show me the work environment because it was a basement with a high security lock. Needless to say I refused the job on the spot. Who the heck would want to work in a prison environment like that?
Imagine getting a call from a head hunter who wants you to leave your current job to go to work for another company (doing the exact same thing) for either less money or the same money.
That happened to me once. It is amusing to say the least.
Quite often the issue isn't missed meals but a loss of status in some way. She got used to a certain level of income and won't stand for anything less. While being saddled with a mountain of debt you wouldn't have contracted otherwise is a good motive (I have heard of people who cancelled their weddings because of it) quite often people just aren't willing to suffer any sort of temporary setback. The incessant yapping the priest tells you before you get married is to remind you that you just can't expect things to go well all the time. The thing is most people just ignore it.
Some jobs are highly seasonal. The construction business is mostly stalled when its raining or snowing so it is hardly surprising the plumber can't get work in the winter. Either he switches to a totally different job in the winter (I know people like this who have two jobs) or he basically stops working and rests in the winter.
Uh? Only if we are talking about a clueless mismanager. A good manager would understand which skills you really need to do the job and if you have prior experience which is also helpful. If we are talking about working under a mismanager I would prefer to be working elsewhere.
I had the same issue when I was applying for a Java programmer job. I spent most of my life programming in C/C++ and a lot of those HR types couldn't be convinced that if you could do object oriented programming in C++ then going to Java wouldn't be difficult. After 6 months I was doing better than the guys which supposedly had 2 years of experience on the job.
Can't remember one good SF TV show running right now. Most SF anything I have seen recently is either anime or reruns.
It is based on an historical novel rather than sci-fi but I liked watching the Three Kingdoms TV series (2010).
Probably because the Japanese PC market has traditionally been smaller (as a percentage of the population) than in other countries. A lot of people have consoles or cellphones but personal computers used to be (and probably still are) more rare to come by. If less people have access to general purpose computers it is hardly surprising there are less programmers (including good programmers). There is some Japanese software I would call good however. The CinemaCraft Encoder and Nikon's Capture NX software come to mind. The Ruby programming language was also designed by a Japanese. Then there is their games software industry which is also pretty successful.
Creative is not a Japanese company. Creative was founded in Singapore.
They could have pushed the manufacturer for open source drivers. They are a major customer after all.
A lot of women pretend they can't do anything technical because they simply don't give a damn and can get some guy to do it instead. Seriously.
The problem AFAIK isn't zero-gravity. The problem is high-g flight (e.g. during the rocket launch).
They probably only started recruiting women for astronaut duty a short time ago so they had less of a recruitment pool. The Chinese have allegedly been training male astronauts over a decade before they even made a manned space flight so no surprises there. Why men? Well there are more of them that you can recruit by going to the military airplane pilot roster. These people already have done extensive physical and psychological tests so it is easier to screen for possible candidates.
Never heard anything about 'exploding teeth' myself. What I did hear at one time was that in high-G situations where you had lead fillings (do they even use those anymore?) the lead could cause damage to the tooth or even blood poisoning.