Well... guess what, in a sense, they relied on high schoolers, since:
1 - google started in 1996 2 - hence, relied on linux kernel 2.4 series (from 2001 and 2.6 appeared in 2004) 3 - Maintained by a high schooler at the time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Tosatti (and no, he was not at the university at that time)
Actually I believe there's one more important detail in the MP3 success: CPU usage and bitrate quality
A 486 can play MP3s with reduced quality (not encoded quality, but playback downgrading). Pentium with full quality. Encoding times were far from realtime.
I believe competing formats used too much bitrate for same quality or too much cpu power.
Sorry, but I'm a mathematician... so everything you physicists do is just a model to me. Ever since I realized (via Goedel) that there aren't even any complete and consistent theories for logic, I sort of figured that there would never be a complete and consistent theory for physics. (Let me know if you find one.) In the mean time, I'm still really impressed with the work physicists do! I really should finish working through Gravitation some day... that's cool stuff.
You're right. Physics are one of the fields where science shines best, but still I think they read more into it than they should.
That, still, Relativity may be a model (in the math sense) but it's much more about the ideas (codified into math, of course). The big breakthough of Einstein was not doing the math, but interpreting what was being seen correctly.
IT careers are fundamentally broken. IT is not treated like a science. IT workers don't have unions to protect them like mechanics and doctors. IT gets the worst of everything. Most people can only immerse themselves in code and gadgetry for so long before they notice that their peers appear to be leading more enjoyable lives.
This this and SO this. And it's all our fault. I'm not saying unions or things like the AMA for doctors, here's it:
- IT workers put up with so much crap and worse, they like it sometimes. From "corporate multi million tools" that are complete shit, to micromanagement from upper layers, from four letter word 'certification' that's good for nothing.
- IT is treated like the janitors, the street cleaners, the busboys (or even worse). This may be different in Google or something, still. They don't stand up, they don't call out BS and they dodge responsibility.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
Then expect a huge flood of lawsuits from a multitude of OSS developers towards big users of free software especially those with connection to ASCAP
It is truly difficult to conquer a technology that has been refined for 200 years
Humm... not really. ICEs are a really crappy technology. "Refinement" in this case means "make it suck less"
. Electric cars have been all-but-abandoned for most of that time
90% politics 10% actual merit
Petrol is a magnificently concentrated form of fuel. That's hard to beat. Can we get anything like that density of energy into anything else at the moment - er, no.
100% true. But you can keep petrol and have a better power unit / drive train tech and double the efficiency. Also research on fuel cells means an electric car that runs on gas OR ethanol with better efficiency
- returning old batteries for a lower battery replacement cost - replacement with newer technology batteries or equivalent (fuel cell maybe) - if electric cars become more popular and it's easier to recharge them battery capacity may go down as well as cost
1 - Patent. I don't know if US grants 'first publishing' rights or not, still. You don't need to wait for the application to go through though. Send it and the check to USPTO and it should be ok.
2.1 - Know how to make your case in the article. Research similar stuff, references, etc, etc
2.2 - Check for respectable publishers in the area concerned. I'm not sure Arxiv is a good idea, I'd try for IEEE, ACM or something more specific (and not as 'famous'). Easier to publish as well than Science, Nature, etc. Just avoid some journals that publish anything you throw at them.
2.3 - Yay! You have a paper with your name on it. yay... sorry, no profit.
This is an interesting problem, and more of a 'customer relations' problem
Non tech people (and even tech people) have a funny way to understand things. If it doesn't look like it's working (even if you're building the foundations, etc) then, for all purposes, it's not working!
And I'd say, never, NEVER put the button if the code to make it work is not there. If you put the button they'll say "ok, now you just have to make it work *wink*"
2) Wrecking your own and everybody else's car without consequence is teaching you risk control? Hah! Paying 100€ for a minor scratch and the hassle with repair shops and insurance, THAT teaches you risk control.
Yeah, that as well
What I mean is "you have to brake now if you don't want to hit that wall"
Curiously, I learned how braking is "different" under rain IRL. Thankfully it didn't cost me anything.
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Well... guess what, in a sense, they relied on high schoolers, since:
1 - google started in 1996
2 - hence, relied on linux kernel 2.4 series (from 2001 and 2.6 appeared in 2004)
3 - Maintained by a high schooler at the time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Tosatti (and no, he was not at the university at that time)
Next thing you know they'll say that lynx is bundled into my system and I can't remove it!!!
This certainly looks like it's a big experiment
Let's hope the last minute changes only make it better.
Actually I believe there's one more important detail in the MP3 success: CPU usage and bitrate quality
A 486 can play MP3s with reduced quality (not encoded quality, but playback downgrading). Pentium with full quality. Encoding times were far from realtime.
I believe competing formats used too much bitrate for same quality or too much cpu power.
Shroedinger's equation kicks ass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation (time independent equation)
I'd go for the derivative form of Maxwell equation or the Wave equation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation
I didn't forget, but I guess it's a tie in terms of being boring.
I may watch another american football match, but I certainly won't see a baseball match again.
Sorry, but I'm a mathematician... so everything you physicists do is just a model to me. Ever since I realized (via Goedel) that there aren't even any complete and consistent theories for logic, I sort of figured that there would never be a complete and consistent theory for physics. (Let me know if you find one.) In the mean time, I'm still really impressed with the work physicists do! I really should finish working through Gravitation some day... that's cool stuff.
You're right. Physics are one of the fields where science shines best, but still I think they read more into it than they should.
That, still, Relativity may be a model (in the math sense) but it's much more about the ideas (codified into math, of course). The big breakthough of Einstein was not doing the math, but interpreting what was being seen correctly.
No need for IIS 5.0 MS PWS should work fine and with enough security there....
You're right, unfortunately
That's why I refuse to work at certain places (unless I'm starving, of course), and one of the reasons I started my own business.
F1 is usually less boring than:
- soccer
- baseball
Even with all the messy rules.
IT careers are fundamentally broken. IT is not treated like a science. IT workers don't have unions to protect them like mechanics and doctors. IT gets the worst of everything. Most people can only immerse themselves in code and gadgetry for so long before they notice that their peers appear to be leading more enjoyable lives.
This this and SO this. And it's all our fault. I'm not saying unions or things like the AMA for doctors, here's it:
- IT workers put up with so much crap and worse, they like it sometimes. From "corporate multi million tools" that are complete shit, to micromanagement from upper layers, from four letter word 'certification' that's good for nothing.
- IT is treated like the janitors, the street cleaners, the busboys (or even worse). This may be different in Google or something, still. They don't stand up, they don't call out BS and they dodge responsibility.
Although the focus is on arists of media and music, the implications to the software industry are staggering. Imagine if GPL, CC, APL, and many other licenses were deemed to be invalid as a result of ASCAP and similar lobbying. All that work you and I have put into creating a free software ecosystem are for nought, because some some media execs want to get paid for performances by musicians who didn't sign with them.
Then expect a huge flood of lawsuits from a multitude of OSS developers towards big users of free software especially those with connection to ASCAP
It would be a MS wet dream probably, still
It is truly difficult to conquer a technology that has been refined for 200 years
Humm... not really. ICEs are a really crappy technology. "Refinement" in this case means "make it suck less"
. Electric cars have been all-but-abandoned for most of that time
90% politics 10% actual merit
Petrol is a magnificently concentrated form of fuel. That's hard to beat. Can we get anything like that density of energy into anything else at the moment - er, no.
100% true. But you can keep petrol and have a better power unit / drive train tech and double the efficiency. Also research on fuel cells means an electric car that runs on gas OR ethanol with better efficiency
Well, you can think about
- returning old batteries for a lower battery replacement cost
- replacement with newer technology batteries or equivalent (fuel cell maybe)
- if electric cars become more popular and it's easier to recharge them battery capacity may go down as well as cost
1 - Patent. I don't know if US grants 'first publishing' rights or not, still. You don't need to wait for the application to go through though. Send it and the check to USPTO and it should be ok.
2.1 - Know how to make your case in the article. Research similar stuff, references, etc, etc
2.2 - Check for respectable publishers in the area concerned. I'm not sure Arxiv is a good idea, I'd try for IEEE, ACM or something more specific (and not as 'famous'). Easier to publish as well than Science, Nature, etc. Just avoid some journals that publish anything you throw at them.
2.3 - Yay! You have a paper with your name on it. yay... sorry, no profit.
So, what are typical age discrimination activities?
You have to type the lyrics of a Lady Gaga song as the password to the lab
Funny how no one mentioned CO2 suffocation
Either that or, I dunno, vacuum chamber.
This is an interesting problem, and more of a 'customer relations' problem
Non tech people (and even tech people) have a funny way to understand things. If it doesn't look like it's working (even if you're building the foundations, etc) then, for all purposes, it's not working!
And I'd say, never, NEVER put the button if the code to make it work is not there. If you put the button they'll say "ok, now you just have to make it work *wink*"
Protip: hire the three developers from different countries
Great video, thanks!
2) Wrecking your own and everybody else's car without consequence is teaching you risk control? Hah! Paying 100€ for a minor scratch and the hassle with repair shops and insurance, THAT teaches you risk control.
Yeah, that as well
What I mean is "you have to brake now if you don't want to hit that wall"
Curiously, I learned how braking is "different" under rain IRL. Thankfully it didn't cost me anything.
Why they don't go and study the effects of videogames in driving on the following subjects:
- improved reflexes
- risk control (you know what happens in the vg if you do this, so I'm not trying in real life)
- steering control (see above)
Instead they just want to go the "videogames are bad" route
Maybe they're playing bad cop, tautological cop
Let me guess, it was in HTML...
Maybe you should talk to him
Also, "talk is cheap"
Go ahead, hire that guy that knows all the technologies there on his CV, see what happens.
(I'm not complaining about the parent, rather, the GP the parent quotes)