Extra Credits, a regular lecture on game industry topics with funny pictures hosted by Penny Arcade addressed this issue a while back. I found it very illuminating.
It's a bit pricey, but Donald Knuth's series "The Art of Computer Programming" doesn't require a computer. Kind of dense, but very useful.
A lighter choice might be any of Clive Maxfield's offerings. Unfortunately these have the nasty habit of going out of print. Luckily, "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie" is getting rereleased in a third edition in January. It's an enjoyable read and quite accessible.
Didn't mean to post that anonymously. Please read parent. Gah.
And just like Los Alamos, I fully expect this to have some serious problems finding people to come do the unskilled labor. When they do, it comes with some subtle social problems. There is no small degree of resentment among those who, unable to afford housing in Los Alamos, are forced to commute from less expensive surrounding areas. A community like this sounds good on paper, but in practice, it's complicated. If Los Alamos could uproot and relocate for no cost today to a less isolated area, I think it would be done in a heartbeat. It was only the initial secrecy that required it to be where it is and inertia that keeps it there.
The idea is much older than you might think. Atari planned to do something very similar in addition to cordless controllers, light guns, and a primitive motion sensor controller. Atari had a lot of great ideas.
All this study has proven is that, at this point in time, those coming out of college and into the workforce don't know how the workforce works and are disappointed that it isn't easy. Has this ever not been the case? The study showed that the youngest, who are more likely to have no real work experience are most prone to be inexperienced with the way the world works and as they get older they catch on. The only reason this has anything to do with genX/GenMil is because they are now at that stage.
If this has ever not been the case at any point it time it would have been at a time and in a field when and where it was more common for people to get one job and stay with it until retirement/pension. The IT industry has never worked that way. Workers have mobility and they use it. If they use it when they are new to this working for a living thing it is more likely due to inexperience rather than flawed upbringing.
I resent tinyurl not for this hypothetical threat, but for cheating on google's image labeling game. Instead of legitimate labels, they plug in the deterministic output of a zippy the pinhead phrase generator, others do the same and, so, far outscore us mere mortals.
Simple. Re-title the book "The Lexicon of the Godless World of the Evil Harry Potter and his Stupid Friends". Presto! Suddenly it's satire and protected speech.
Every porn star who has appeared in a single movie is considered worthy of a Wikipedia article. Search for them, they are there en mass. Yet, to be worthy of an article, a webcomic has to be in the top what . . . 10? 20? I can't say I know really. Like many aspects of Wikipedia, it's inconsistent. I think every webcomic has had an article at one time. Some are well-entrenched, others continue to exist only because their notability is not even worth the effort of deletion.
The idea that any actor, even an actor in a cheap porn filmed in a barn in Idaho, is worthy of an article because it exists in the space outside of Internet culture while a webcomic has to meet a meaningless standard of notability outside of its primary sphere of influence and existence is evidence that the notability requirement, while well-meaning, is fundamentally flawed.
A lot of people have expressed frustration[weasel words]. With the brow-beating of a few Wikipedians insisting on burdening articles with improvement requirements when they don't like using reversions, deletions, and abuse of the rules.[citation needed] Making the whole collaborative process a flame war in which he who has the most free time wins.[who said this?]
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As simple licenses go, you can't get much simpler than the beerware license. I'd love to see Google adopt it!
sadangel wrote this comment. As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
Spanish single pesestas used to be tiny aluminum disks. They seemed a lot like toy money. Bigger shops tended to give them out as change, but most smaller places rounded to the 5 peseta "duro". A single peseta was worth about 3/4 of a cent at the time. Goes to show we still have alternatives to losing the penny entirely.
"I don't think U.S. industry is going to stand for a huge cloud being placed on their valuable patent portfolio," said Mossinghoff, the former patent commissioner.
Yet Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel, and Cisco, companies with immense patent portfolios are all completely behind changing the rules.
I also got a kick out of the opponents who claim this will ruin the "predictability" of the patent request process. I suppose knowing you're going to get a rubber stamp is predictable and even equitable in its own little way.
They have registered some significant patents even since then. For example, they have a 2003 patent for floating point framebuffers. Remarkable that SGI beat everyone else to the punch, but they did. So everyone implementing floating point framebuffers, which is everyone, is violating this significant patent with SGI unless they have licensed it, which they might well have.
Maybe they aren't taking in cash hand over fist like they used to, but SGI still holds some serious patents that are being used by Nvidia, ATI, and other major players. I doubt they will go the SCO route and start suing everyone, but don't be surprised if there is a bidding war over this particular bloated corpse.
Being a Democrat in Utah may be like masturbating, it's enjoyable, but it doesn't really accomplish anything. Still, that doesn't keep people from masturbating, does it?
It's been found that GPUs, despite their impressive floating point capabilities, can't compare to heavily-optimized and cache coherent CPU implementations of large matrix operations, such as ATLAS. The exception is when the result is to be displayed anyway, as in scientific visualization and Scout. The real drawback of GPUs is the readback speeds. When the result is done, if it isn't to be displayed, it must be read back into the CPU memory. This is notoriously inefficient. PCIe is improving this, but it's still a serious problem.
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Extra Credits, a regular lecture on game industry topics with funny pictures hosted by Penny Arcade addressed this issue a while back. I found it very illuminating.
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/consoles-are-the-new-coin-op
It's a bit pricey, but Donald Knuth's series "The Art of Computer Programming" doesn't require a computer. Kind of dense, but very useful.
A lighter choice might be any of Clive Maxfield's offerings. Unfortunately these have the nasty habit of going out of print. Luckily, "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie" is getting rereleased in a third edition in January. It's an enjoyable read and quite accessible.
Didn't mean to post that anonymously. Please read parent. Gah.
And just like Los Alamos, I fully expect this to have some serious problems finding people to come do the unskilled labor. When they do, it comes with some subtle social problems. There is no small degree of resentment among those who, unable to afford housing in Los Alamos, are forced to commute from less expensive surrounding areas. A community like this sounds good on paper, but in practice, it's complicated. If Los Alamos could uproot and relocate for no cost today to a less isolated area, I think it would be done in a heartbeat. It was only the initial secrecy that required it to be where it is and inertia that keeps it there.
The idea is much older than you might think. Atari planned to do something very similar in addition to cordless controllers, light guns, and a primitive motion sensor controller. Atari had a lot of great ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Mindlink
All this study has proven is that, at this point in time, those coming out of college and into the workforce don't know how the workforce works and are disappointed that it isn't easy. Has this ever not been the case? The study showed that the youngest, who are more likely to have no real work experience are most prone to be inexperienced with the way the world works and as they get older they catch on. The only reason this has anything to do with genX/GenMil is because they are now at that stage.
If this has ever not been the case at any point it time it would have been at a time and in a field when and where it was more common for people to get one job and stay with it until retirement/pension. The IT industry has never worked that way. Workers have mobility and they use it. If they use it when they are new to this working for a living thing it is more likely due to inexperience rather than flawed upbringing.
I resent tinyurl not for this hypothetical threat, but for cheating on google's image labeling game. Instead of legitimate labels, they plug in the deterministic output of a zippy the pinhead phrase generator, others do the same and, so, far outscore us mere mortals.
They've finally discovered Wilma's vacuum cleaner.
Simple. Re-title the book "The Lexicon of the Godless World of the Evil Harry Potter and his Stupid Friends". Presto! Suddenly it's satire and protected speech.
In a revitalization of music recorded as bumps, artists everywhere eschew compact disks in favor of the Japanese roadway format.
I think Multics would more appropriately be described as the abusive, overweight, unemployed step-father of Unix.
Every porn star who has appeared in a single movie is considered worthy of a Wikipedia article. Search for them, they are there en mass. Yet, to be worthy of an article, a webcomic has to be in the top what . . . 10? 20? I can't say I know really. Like many aspects of Wikipedia, it's inconsistent. I think every webcomic has had an article at one time. Some are well-entrenched, others continue to exist only because their notability is not even worth the effort of deletion.
The idea that any actor, even an actor in a cheap porn filmed in a barn in Idaho, is worthy of an article because it exists in the space outside of Internet culture while a webcomic has to meet a meaningless standard of notability outside of its primary sphere of influence and existence is evidence that the notability requirement, while well-meaning, is fundamentally flawed.
You insensitive clod! My drinking buddy *is* a world famous neurosurgeon!
A lot of people have expressed frustration[weasel words]. With the brow-beating of a few Wikipedians insisting on burdening articles with improvement requirements when they don't like using reversions, deletions, and abuse of the rules.[citation needed] Making the whole collaborative process a flame war in which he who has the most free time wins.[who said this?]
[This comment is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy]
[The neutrality of this comment has been disputed]
[This article may contain original research or unverified claims]
As simple licenses go, you can't get much simpler than the beerware license. I'd love to see Google adopt it!
sadangel wrote this comment. As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
With the new reclassification of planets opened up by Pluto being dropped from the list Mercury is now officially classified as the sun's moon.
Spanish single pesestas used to be tiny aluminum disks. They seemed a lot like toy money. Bigger shops tended to give them out as change, but most smaller places rounded to the 5 peseta "duro". A single peseta was worth about 3/4 of a cent at the time. Goes to show we still have alternatives to losing the penny entirely.
I refer you to the interweb's foremost authority on the matter: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls Wikipedia controls the past.
A quote from the end of the article:
"I don't think U.S. industry is going to stand for a huge cloud being placed on their valuable patent portfolio," said Mossinghoff, the former patent commissioner.
Yet Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Intel, and Cisco, companies with immense patent portfolios are all completely behind changing the rules.
I also got a kick out of the opponents who claim this will ruin the "predictability" of the patent request process. I suppose knowing you're going to get a rubber stamp is predictable and even equitable in its own little way.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=176905&cid=14
They have registered some significant patents even since then. For example, they have a 2003 patent for floating point framebuffers. Remarkable that SGI beat everyone else to the punch, but they did. So everyone implementing floating point framebuffers, which is everyone, is violating this significant patent with SGI unless they have licensed it, which they might well have.
Maybe they aren't taking in cash hand over fist like they used to, but SGI still holds some serious patents that are being used by Nvidia, ATI, and other major players. I doubt they will go the SCO route and start suing everyone, but don't be surprised if there is a bidding war over this particular bloated corpse.
He has a myspace account as well.
http://www.myspace.com/pashdown.
Being a Democrat in Utah may be like masturbating, it's enjoyable, but it doesn't really accomplish anything. Still, that doesn't keep people from masturbating, does it?
Go Pete!
Great, so we've gone from something with ridiculous Satanic implications to something that looks like a sex toy.
It's been found that GPUs, despite their impressive floating point capabilities, can't compare to heavily-optimized and cache coherent CPU implementations of large matrix operations, such as ATLAS. The exception is when the result is to be displayed anyway, as in scientific visualization and Scout. The real drawback of GPUs is the readback speeds. When the result is done, if it isn't to be displayed, it must be read back into the CPU memory. This is notoriously inefficient. PCIe is improving this, but it's still a serious problem.