Basically you were a broker, that job has been around for LONG time before AT&T claimed it. All they may have done was add the ability to do it via phone. I wonder if this means all the 1-800 (and 1-900) numbers that accept a credit card as payment for something owe AT&T royalties? After all, they used "telecommunications" to buy something. This one should (I hope) get tossed out as a waste of the court's time.
So many fallacies...
1) Terrorists don't fit in any age group, so what if they happen to be older than average, while they may not be planting bombs, they can send cash to the bombers or give them shelter (and many do!!). Besides overstaying your visa is breaking the law and they should be sent packing. I wonder how many people came over here on H1-Bs and now have no jobs but stayed anyway?
2) The Atty Gen's job is to ENFORCE the laws that are on the books which were MADE by CONGRESS. The Patriot Act had strong support from BOTH parties, so there is blame to share. Did you ever stop to think that some of the arrests and seizures under that act might just mean YOU or you LOVED ONES didn't die in another WTC like attack? You want to bitch about the laws talk to your ELECTED representatives, you want to bitch about lawbreakers or selective enforcement call DOJ.
3)If Ashcroft did not enforce the laws he could be removed from office. Oh, and Lest we forget about the issues from the Days of Janet Reno (Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians, the Cuban kid...) who was by many measures a very bad AG. She couldn't even get elected by her own party to run for Governer of her home state! Ashcroft served with great distinction in the Senate for many years and when he was nominated he had praise from both parties.
4) Read, listen and think for yourself, and remember your history as it happened (if you are old enough) not how the media SAYS it happened years later./. readers profess to be smarter than average, so use that brain for more than writing code.
5) You don't vote, don't bitch. You had your chance and you didn't take it.
6) Take the time to understand how our Government works (for those who live in the USA), not how someone on TV or on some news web site says how they WANTED it to work. If you are outside the USA it might do well to know something about it in case you ever visit....now back to your regularly scheduled SCO bashing...
This all seems kind of counter intuitive. Graphite is a neutron moderator, slowing down neutrons to the point they cannot sustain fission. Now if we wrap the fuel in the graphite, depending on how much we use we moderate the reaction, but don't stop it, which is good. However, reaction does take place and we get the same problems with spent fuel as with any other reactor, its just better shielded by its "coating", but it still gives off radioactivity and has to be handled carefully..so not really any benefit there. And the graphite while OK to moderate neutrons from the fuel may not be enough to moderate the spent fuel which is polluted with all sorts of more radioactive decay elements. So the huge water tanks for storing the spent fuel will still be needed. I also wonder if making the Graphite Spheres with fuel inside is more economical than the normal fuel rods in Heavy Water and Light Water reactors? Operating the reactor and turbine at such high pressures poses some risks as well, a leak of high pressure, high temp helium could result in severe damage and injury. Makeing everything high pressure gas tight is going to be expensive as well.While He absorbs very little radioactivity there will be some Helium3 produced which is radioactive, and the turbine, intercoolers, etc. will over time have to be scrapped as low level waste as they have direct contact with the mildly radioactive helium working fluid. This does not happen in a water based design. So, while this design has some positives, it does NOT eliminate all the negatives and in fact adds a few small new ones. I also don't see the cost advantages either, any new technology is going to cost more to implement the first few times than estimated. The plant life of 40 yrs is about the same as the current designs, so the amortization is about the same. So, in my mind I don't see the huge benefits they claim(marketing hype?), perhaps some small ones and perhaps a bit more safe So, IMHO this is NOT a breakthru for "cheap nuclear power". I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on these points.
I look for more generalized problem solving skills, and creative solutions. Thus the second problem is fair game and the solution to use the Unix sort command or awk or sed instead of C++ would give them an A in my book.
The first problems should be caught be a good compiler with the warnings set to a high level. The unsafe cast would be flagged, the destructor and wrong kind of delete may or may not have been. I would guess the parent poster was looking for a C++ guru not just a programmer as those type of errors are not trvial to find!
Don't forget that due to technology inventions that many of us helped design and develop that overall business productivity has improved. Improved productivity means you can do more with less workers. Until the extra productivity is fully utilized and every worker is maxed out there is no need to hire. So, we are "hoist by our own (techno) petard" in some ways.
I'm not letting someone in India make my IT management decisions. I want someone who is here in the USA, close to my business, who I can talk to face to face and that I can keep an eye on so that they don't go off on a tangent. He/she may or may not be overpriced depending on how much value they bring to the company. It's kind of hard to have your IT management be responsive when they are on the other side of the world! In fact, a lot of large outsourced offshore projects are being re-examined for this reason, the communication sucks due the issues of time zones and sometimes language barriers so timely, effective communication is a problem. Plus, you send your IT strategy over to India where the business laws are less strict and it may end up being copied by your competitors. So what are you going to do then? There have been recent cases of data processing work going to 3rd world nations and people there are hacking/mining the data for identity scams,and blackmail (we won't send your data to your Insurance company to pay the bill unless we get a cut). And there is nothing you can do as a company except try to hide from the bad press. US Laws have no meaning in that country and the local law can easily be bought. Moving to an offshore model for codiing (much less management) carries some significant risks to gain the lower costs.
Hmmm..guess you have never met an MBA who also has a BS in Comp Sci and 22 yrs programming experience. You have now. And I can show you a LOT more.
Wizards do the basic things, and if you want something more than basic you have to do it yourself, or find a geek to do it. Of course the geek takes 5 days and insists that it has to be the lastest Linux version and has all the bells and whistles and gee-whiz-bang stuff in it when all you wanted was something that works quickly and adds data extracted from a database and does a few business calculations like ROI, and oh you needed it in 2 hours.
It gets really tiring to see all the bashing of MBAs. Oh yes, this is/. the home of the teenagers and college kids who know it all.
The article says nothing about WHICH "flavor" of Linux will be preferred for running Star Office. I didn't even know SO came with the Chinese character set (which of several dozens of written dialect of Chinese do they use?). It's a nice one time sale. The Chinese will be copying SO and redistributing it to anyone for $10/each, to hell with copyrights, GPL, etc. Of course only the pirates with Gov't approval will be allowed the business, the rest are executed.
Even worse is they write C-TRAN as they were told they can't use FORTRAN for embedded code, so they write FORTRAN, except using C code! Horrible, horrible code!
If all you are at chess is someone who knows the basics, yes I agree. But it takes someone pretty advanced to program strategies and deep look aheads (i.e. search space pruning) I seriously doubt they do it by brute force computing of all possible moves. I'm a pretty good programmer but I wouldn't know how to program the computer to give up this piece in favor of having a possible tiny strategic advantage 25 moves later.
Early in my career I worked in AI, and we always used experts to tune systems for the best performance, and I'm sure they do that today as well. I suspect once the match is over a lot of the details of how that program was developed will be available. I suspect a team of programmers and very good Master chess players developed it. We shall see.
The chess program is only as good as the programming that went into it. I would be very surprised if that chess program was written by only one person, so in truth the human is playing against a group, who have the combined knowledge of thier chess intelligence plus the whole history of chess they can reference. And of course they have analyzed all the games the opponent ever played to see if a tendency has developed that can be countered. It's intelligent as it is was designed to be by the developers. Even hueristic programs have to be programmed by someone to learn and adapt. The whole problem with chess playing computers has been one of the CPU power to build the huge state space quickly and efficient pruning algorithms to manage the space and cut it down to a size that can be managed AND gives good results. It's an interesting area but by no means is a chess playing computer going to pass the Turing Test.
LOL..I should proof read better, but thats a job that I should have an assistant for;)
I got the MBA 18 yrs after the BS CS. It worked out REALLY well when things were good. I had a nice management job, leading about 20-25 people, a great salary too at IBM. Now, I'm back to where I was about 10 yrs ago in my career, working with NASA in a software oversight role:(
I'm looking for a new job right now, to get back towards Home (TX) but I think the MBA is actually HURTING me as employers thinks I have no technical skills. Maybe the economy here in the US will get good enough that my skills will be in demand again.
Sorry for running on, but you DID ask!:) I hope I got all the acronyms right this time!
Agreed! But if you email them and get a reasonable answer back you have just defeated your own arguments and have to think of another topic to write about!:) Advertiser based search is the MSN model, you don't have to use it. BTW, ever notice the little boxes on the right hand side in Google that a "featured links", those are paid placements. So Google isn't lilly white pure!
If it was only that Microsoft was good at Marketing I'd be OK with that, let those who are swayed by the Marketing buy the products for better or worse. However, they have crossed over the line from just hyping products to customers to using anti-competitive practices to dominate the market by unfair means. They make up for the shortcomings in the products by these behaviors, and try to hide behind words and lawyers. When is the last time we have seen real innovation in a Microsoft product? When did comsumers get more for less? I'm very much free enterprise, and all for good and clever Marketing but monopolistic practices stifle innovation inside the monopolistic firm and within the industry segement.Competition is good! As far as politics go, conservatives are more pro-business (not pro-monopoly..you are just acting ignorant to say one is the same as the other) and let the market (people) decide, and liberals are more pro Government control via rules/regulations. This distinction is plainly clear if you just look at the facts
As for Liunx/OpenSource, I think it is a great idea, I fully agree with it, but it's more like a scapel to do surgery with versus the Microsoft broadsword that slays anything in it's path. As it stands now Linux is not going to stop Microsoft, heck even the Government can't seem to stop Microsoft. The only way to stop them is to educate about the other options and make these options available and easy to use. Until you can convince the general computer buying public (and the mass media) the Linux isn't just for/. geeks you are not going to make any headway against Microsoft no matter how bad you think their products and behavior are. I'll probably get lots of hate mail about this but it's the truth.
Agreed that most (all?) the info can be found for free or next to it on the web. But there is a lot of hard to understand info along with the good stuff (just like always on the 'net).
I also agree that you can read all you want of the free texts but having someone to mentor you and take the time to work with you on the hard parts is invaluable. If it was all as easy as just RFTA I shouldn't have spent 4.5 yrs to get the BS in CS and another 3 to get the MBA.:)
Good teachers of complex subjects like Math, CS, Engineering are greatly underappreciated! I still recall fondly the profs I have had that were good teachers, and still hate the ones who were bad teachers! Which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms about tenure!;)
I got 9.3M in 0.11 secs at Google, did someone add 1.2M links this morning?;)
MSN says 8,900,562. That's within 5% of Google. Pretty good for a search engine owned by those who wish to kill Lunix.
Lycos/HotBot says 8,948,296.
So, everyone is about the same. But Lycos/HotBot SAY the first page is only sponsored links.
In other words the author is VERY biased. I don't like biased towards either side in the Windows/Linux fight. But Microsoft has made a lot of enemies so you gotta take all the anti-MS press with some amount of skepticism. I'm NOT a MS fan, only a fan of the facts.
If all he is offering is a high level overview to stimulate those with interest and desire to learn more on thier own, then I second the motion. I don't expect him to give away the details that you would expect in a CS class. Think of it as a "teaser" or preview of the subject. It can't hurt to provide the novice/.er a basic background in CS, in fact it might improve the arguments! Or stimulate someone to get an education. I see no down side as long as everyone behaves and takes the info in the spirit offered.
How could you forget the Area's of Searching and Sorting (or do you put that in with Algorithm Analysis)? The work of Donald Knuth in these areas is the "bible" for the subjects even though the work was done in the 1950's and 60's. I cant quote any papers but I know he published many.
In the areas of Software Quality we need to recoginze the work of Capers Jones and Tom McCabe who came up with the idea of metrics and how to apply them.
In Programming Languages we obviously have K&R, then Niklas Wirth (Pascal) and then (name escapes me) the French inventor of Eiffel. You might want to throw in the committee that developed Ada as well, and the group at Sun that developed Java.
Don't forget Marvin Minsky and his work in AI (ELIZA).
In Databases we get Mr. E.L. Codd who basically invented relational databases.
If you added all the great CS foundation papers as well as the more modern "breakthrough" papers in many areas you'd have several hundered papers IMHO. It would be very hard to pick a top 10 list.
A lot of physics researchers actaully write thier own code! The science is so "weird" that only they can understand it (so they say). I'm working on a project now for an Gamma-Ray Telescope where all the software is developed by PhD's as they see fit. No process controls, no QA, and no Lunix (VXworks is the OS). Kinda scary that the code is "too complex" for anyone else to verify, we have to wait until they can test it in a high energy beam in the accelerator lab to see if the software works!
I think the overall plan is interesting but I think there is no way the budget can stand more than 1 or 2 of these projects that are on the Near Term list. Since these projects are about the unknown, I strongly suspect big cost over-runs as soon as the Engineers have to build the machines that the scientists imagined. Then the Managers have to decide what capabilty to cut out. Also, I see a LOT of room to insert "pork" for various political agendas.
You have access to Top Secret Intelligence info so you KNOW the data is FALSE? Wow...you better hope that Echelon is down for Vet's day or you might be getting a visit.;)
I did RTFA, and it really didn't amount to much. Fussing about something missing on the web from 5 yrs ago that in itself wasn't much to worry about.
Mountain out of a molehill.
It's entirely possible that in the over 5 yrs since that article was published the file was corrupted or lost/deleted somehow without anyone noticing. It's not like someone who was really interested couldn't go back and find a paper copy or a copy in another Electronic archive. If Time wanted to republish the article they could find it. Memory Hole picked this article and issue for pure political gain. Did they verify NOTHING else is missing from any issue ever of Time that is web archived? Did they check several archives? Besides who cares what an ex-Pres thought 5 yrs ago about Gulf War I? It doesn't matter now except from a historical perspective. Forget the shoulda/woulda/coulda and deal with the present!
Because they decided something else would sell more magazines. Their audience is not conservative at all, so something written by either Bush would not be a plus. I often disagreed with my Dad in some things even though we agreed on most things so why should GWB be any different? Why should we care what an ex-President of either party thinks anyhow? Times change, the current President has information they did not have, and uses it to make his decisions. These guys had thier chances and made thier own marks. I'm not sure about Bush Sr, but Clinton/Gore just likes the attention from their friends in the press.
Agreed! I have a 92 Nissan 240 with 168K miles that passed fine for years. I always did PM on it myself. It's been sitting for 2 yrs now waiting on my 16 yr old..time to teach her how to keep it going. It is pretty easy to work on, unlike my new Maxima which would be h*ll. I can't even FIND the spark plugs!
Airline Pilots are limited by the FAA to like 100 hours a month and 8 hours flying time per day w/o a 12 hour off time.
Senior Captains often can ick long trips where they get the 8 hours in on 1 flight. Jr Pilots have to make multiple takeoffs and landings which at busy airports and with weather can be very stressful. Delays due to weather don't count towards the 12hr max duty day, so there can be some LONG days. Right now, airlines are really getting some concessions (S$$$) out of pilots, who not only have to worry about terrorists but thier own CEOS stabbing them!
Senior Captains with 15-20 yrs experience who fly the "heavies" like 747s get a nice 6 figure income, the guys and gals flying for Southwest make about 60K. Seniority is the key, as well as getting trained on lots of different aircraft in order to move up. Often a captain of a small plane will get trained on something else and move up, but he is back to being co-pilot or flight engineer and maybe even a pay cut until s/he is certified on the new equipment.
It's not an easy job, you have life and death over a lot of people and have to deal with a lot of Gov't red tape as well as other things. These guys earn the checks!
It's all relative. In their economy they might be thought of as overpaid by most of the population. Most folks I talk to think most computer people are overpaid (since it's such an easy job!)
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Basically you were a broker, that job has been around for LONG time before AT&T claimed it. All they may have done was add the ability to do it via phone. I wonder if this means all the 1-800 (and 1-900) numbers that accept a credit card as payment for something owe AT&T royalties? After all, they used "telecommunications" to buy something. This one should (I hope) get tossed out as a waste of the court's time.
So many fallacies... 1) Terrorists don't fit in any age group, so what if they happen to be older than average, while they may not be planting bombs, they can send cash to the bombers or give them shelter (and many do!!). Besides overstaying your visa is breaking the law and they should be sent packing. I wonder how many people came over here on H1-Bs and now have no jobs but stayed anyway? 2) The Atty Gen's job is to ENFORCE the laws that are on the books which were MADE by CONGRESS. The Patriot Act had strong support from BOTH parties, so there is blame to share. Did you ever stop to think that some of the arrests and seizures under that act might just mean YOU or you LOVED ONES didn't die in another WTC like attack? You want to bitch about the laws talk to your ELECTED representatives, you want to bitch about lawbreakers or selective enforcement call DOJ. 3)If Ashcroft did not enforce the laws he could be removed from office. Oh, and Lest we forget about the issues from the Days of Janet Reno (Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians, the Cuban kid...) who was by many measures a very bad AG. She couldn't even get elected by her own party to run for Governer of her home state! Ashcroft served with great distinction in the Senate for many years and when he was nominated he had praise from both parties. 4) Read, listen and think for yourself, and remember your history as it happened (if you are old enough) not how the media SAYS it happened years later. /. readers profess to be smarter than average, so use that brain for more than writing code.
5) You don't vote, don't bitch. You had your chance and you didn't take it.
6) Take the time to understand how our Government works (for those who live in the USA), not how someone on TV or on some news web site says how they WANTED it to work. If you are outside the USA it might do well to know something about it in case you ever visit. ...now back to your regularly scheduled SCO bashing...
This all seems kind of counter intuitive. Graphite is a neutron moderator, slowing down neutrons to the point they cannot sustain fission. Now if we wrap the fuel in the graphite, depending on how much we use we moderate the reaction, but don't stop it, which is good. However, reaction does take place and we get the same problems with spent fuel as with any other reactor, its just better shielded by its "coating", but it still gives off radioactivity and has to be handled carefully..so not really any benefit there. And the graphite while OK to moderate neutrons from the fuel may not be enough to moderate the spent fuel which is polluted with all sorts of more radioactive decay elements. So the huge water tanks for storing the spent fuel will still be needed. I also wonder if making the Graphite Spheres with fuel inside is more economical than the normal fuel rods in Heavy Water and Light Water reactors? Operating the reactor and turbine at such high pressures poses some risks as well, a leak of high pressure, high temp helium could result in severe damage and injury. Makeing everything high pressure gas tight is going to be expensive as well.While He absorbs very little radioactivity there will be some Helium3 produced which is radioactive, and the turbine, intercoolers, etc. will over time have to be scrapped as low level waste as they have direct contact with the mildly radioactive helium working fluid. This does not happen in a water based design. So, while this design has some positives, it does NOT eliminate all the negatives and in fact adds a few small new ones. I also don't see the cost advantages either, any new technology is going to cost more to implement the first few times than estimated. The plant life of 40 yrs is about the same as the current designs, so the amortization is about the same. So, in my mind I don't see the huge benefits they claim(marketing hype?), perhaps some small ones and perhaps a bit more safe So, IMHO this is NOT a breakthru for "cheap nuclear power". I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong on these points.
I look for more generalized problem solving skills, and creative solutions. Thus the second problem is fair game and the solution to use the Unix sort command or awk or sed instead of C++ would give them an A in my book. The first problems should be caught be a good compiler with the warnings set to a high level. The unsafe cast would be flagged, the destructor and wrong kind of delete may or may not have been. I would guess the parent poster was looking for a C++ guru not just a programmer as those type of errors are not trvial to find!
Don't forget that due to technology inventions that many of us helped design and develop that overall business productivity has improved. Improved productivity means you can do more with less workers. Until the extra productivity is fully utilized and every worker is maxed out there is no need to hire. So, we are "hoist by our own (techno) petard" in some ways.
I'm not letting someone in India make my IT management decisions. I want someone who is here in the USA, close to my business, who I can talk to face to face and that I can keep an eye on so that they don't go off on a tangent. He/she may or may not be overpriced depending on how much value they bring to the company. It's kind of hard to have your IT management be responsive when they are on the other side of the world! In fact, a lot of large outsourced offshore projects are being re-examined for this reason, the communication sucks due the issues of time zones and sometimes language barriers so timely, effective communication is a problem. Plus, you send your IT strategy over to India where the business laws are less strict and it may end up being copied by your competitors. So what are you going to do then? There have been recent cases of data processing work going to 3rd world nations and people there are hacking/mining the data for identity scams,and blackmail (we won't send your data to your Insurance company to pay the bill unless we get a cut). And there is nothing you can do as a company except try to hide from the bad press. US Laws have no meaning in that country and the local law can easily be bought. Moving to an offshore model for codiing (much less management) carries some significant risks to gain the lower costs.
Hmmm..guess you have never met an MBA who also has a BS in Comp Sci and 22 yrs programming experience. You have now. And I can show you a LOT more. Wizards do the basic things, and if you want something more than basic you have to do it yourself, or find a geek to do it. Of course the geek takes 5 days and insists that it has to be the lastest Linux version and has all the bells and whistles and gee-whiz-bang stuff in it when all you wanted was something that works quickly and adds data extracted from a database and does a few business calculations like ROI, and oh you needed it in 2 hours. It gets really tiring to see all the bashing of MBAs. Oh yes, this is /. the home of the teenagers and college kids who know it all.
The article says nothing about WHICH "flavor" of Linux will be preferred for running Star Office. I didn't even know SO came with the Chinese character set (which of several dozens of written dialect of Chinese do they use?). It's a nice one time sale. The Chinese will be copying SO and redistributing it to anyone for $10/each, to hell with copyrights, GPL, etc. Of course only the pirates with Gov't approval will be allowed the business, the rest are executed.
Even worse is they write C-TRAN as they were told they can't use FORTRAN for embedded code, so they write FORTRAN, except using C code! Horrible, horrible code!
If all you are at chess is someone who knows the basics, yes I agree. But it takes someone pretty advanced to program strategies and deep look aheads (i.e. search space pruning) I seriously doubt they do it by brute force computing of all possible moves. I'm a pretty good programmer but I wouldn't know how to program the computer to give up this piece in favor of having a possible tiny strategic advantage 25 moves later. Early in my career I worked in AI, and we always used experts to tune systems for the best performance, and I'm sure they do that today as well. I suspect once the match is over a lot of the details of how that program was developed will be available. I suspect a team of programmers and very good Master chess players developed it. We shall see.
The chess program is only as good as the programming that went into it. I would be very surprised if that chess program was written by only one person, so in truth the human is playing against a group, who have the combined knowledge of thier chess intelligence plus the whole history of chess they can reference. And of course they have analyzed all the games the opponent ever played to see if a tendency has developed that can be countered. It's intelligent as it is was designed to be by the developers. Even hueristic programs have to be programmed by someone to learn and adapt. The whole problem with chess playing computers has been one of the CPU power to build the huge state space quickly and efficient pruning algorithms to manage the space and cut it down to a size that can be managed AND gives good results. It's an interesting area but by no means is a chess playing computer going to pass the Turing Test.
LOL..I should proof read better, but thats a job that I should have an assistant for ;)
I got the MBA 18 yrs after the BS CS. It worked out REALLY well when things were good. I had a nice management job, leading about 20-25 people, a great salary too at IBM. Now, I'm back to where I was about 10 yrs ago in my career, working with NASA in a software oversight role :(
I'm looking for a new job right now, to get back towards Home (TX) but I think the MBA is actually HURTING me as employers thinks I have no technical skills. Maybe the economy here in the US will get good enough that my skills will be in demand again.
Sorry for running on, but you DID ask! :) I hope I got all the acronyms right this time!
Agreed! But if you email them and get a reasonable answer back you have just defeated your own arguments and have to think of another topic to write about! :) Advertiser based search is the MSN model, you don't have to use it. BTW, ever notice the little boxes on the right hand side in Google that a "featured links", those are paid placements. So Google isn't lilly white pure!
If it was only that Microsoft was good at Marketing I'd be OK with that, let those who are swayed by the Marketing buy the products for better or worse. However, they have crossed over the line from just hyping products to customers to using anti-competitive practices to dominate the market by unfair means. They make up for the shortcomings in the products by these behaviors, and try to hide behind words and lawyers. When is the last time we have seen real innovation in a Microsoft product? When did comsumers get more for less? I'm very much free enterprise, and all for good and clever Marketing but monopolistic practices stifle innovation inside the monopolistic firm and within the industry segement.Competition is good! As far as politics go, conservatives are more pro-business (not pro-monopoly..you are just acting ignorant to say one is the same as the other) and let the market (people) decide, and liberals are more pro Government control via rules/regulations. This distinction is plainly clear if you just look at the facts As for Liunx/OpenSource, I think it is a great idea, I fully agree with it, but it's more like a scapel to do surgery with versus the Microsoft broadsword that slays anything in it's path. As it stands now Linux is not going to stop Microsoft, heck even the Government can't seem to stop Microsoft. The only way to stop them is to educate about the other options and make these options available and easy to use. Until you can convince the general computer buying public (and the mass media) the Linux isn't just for /. geeks you are not going to make any headway against Microsoft no matter how bad you think their products and behavior are. I'll probably get lots of hate mail about this but it's the truth.
Agreed that most (all?) the info can be found for free or next to it on the web. But there is a lot of hard to understand info along with the good stuff (just like always on the 'net). I also agree that you can read all you want of the free texts but having someone to mentor you and take the time to work with you on the hard parts is invaluable. If it was all as easy as just RFTA I shouldn't have spent 4.5 yrs to get the BS in CS and another 3 to get the MBA. :)
Good teachers of complex subjects like Math, CS, Engineering are greatly underappreciated! I still recall fondly the profs I have had that were good teachers, and still hate the ones who were bad teachers! Which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms about tenure! ;)
I got 9.3M in 0.11 secs at Google, did someone add 1.2M links this morning? ;)
MSN says 8,900,562. That's within 5% of Google. Pretty good for a search engine owned by those who wish to kill Lunix.
Lycos/HotBot says 8,948,296.
So, everyone is about the same. But Lycos/HotBot SAY the first page is only sponsored links.
In other words the author is VERY biased. I don't like biased towards either side in the Windows/Linux fight. But Microsoft has made a lot of enemies so you gotta take all the anti-MS press with some amount of skepticism. I'm NOT a MS fan, only a fan of the facts.
If all he is offering is a high level overview to stimulate those with interest and desire to learn more on thier own, then I second the motion. I don't expect him to give away the details that you would expect in a CS class. Think of it as a "teaser" or preview of the subject. It can't hurt to provide the novice /.er a basic background in CS, in fact it might improve the arguments! Or stimulate someone to get an education. I see no down side as long as everyone behaves and takes the info in the spirit offered.
How could you forget the Area's of Searching and Sorting (or do you put that in with Algorithm Analysis)? The work of Donald Knuth in these areas is the "bible" for the subjects even though the work was done in the 1950's and 60's. I cant quote any papers but I know he published many.
In the areas of Software Quality we need to recoginze the work of Capers Jones and Tom McCabe who came up with the idea of metrics and how to apply them.
In Programming Languages we obviously have K&R, then Niklas Wirth (Pascal) and then (name escapes me) the French inventor of Eiffel. You might want to throw in the committee that developed Ada as well, and the group at Sun that developed Java.
Don't forget Marvin Minsky and his work in AI (ELIZA).
In Databases we get Mr. E.L. Codd who basically invented relational databases.
If you added all the great CS foundation papers as well as the more modern "breakthrough" papers in many areas you'd have several hundered papers IMHO. It would be very hard to pick a top 10 list.
A lot of physics researchers actaully write thier own code! The science is so "weird" that only they can understand it (so they say). I'm working on a project now for an Gamma-Ray Telescope where all the software is developed by PhD's as they see fit. No process controls, no QA, and no Lunix (VXworks is the OS). Kinda scary that the code is "too complex" for anyone else to verify, we have to wait until they can test it in a high energy beam in the accelerator lab to see if the software works! I think the overall plan is interesting but I think there is no way the budget can stand more than 1 or 2 of these projects that are on the Near Term list. Since these projects are about the unknown, I strongly suspect big cost over-runs as soon as the Engineers have to build the machines that the scientists imagined. Then the Managers have to decide what capabilty to cut out. Also, I see a LOT of room to insert "pork" for various political agendas.
You have access to Top Secret Intelligence info so you KNOW the data is FALSE? Wow...you better hope that Echelon is down for Vet's day or you might be getting a visit. ;)
I did RTFA, and it really didn't amount to much. Fussing about something missing on the web from 5 yrs ago that in itself wasn't much to worry about.
Mountain out of a molehill.
It's entirely possible that in the over 5 yrs since that article was published the file was corrupted or lost/deleted somehow without anyone noticing. It's not like someone who was really interested couldn't go back and find a paper copy or a copy in another Electronic archive. If Time wanted to republish the article they could find it. Memory Hole picked this article and issue for pure political gain. Did they verify NOTHING else is missing from any issue ever of Time that is web archived? Did they check several archives? Besides who cares what an ex-Pres thought 5 yrs ago about Gulf War I? It doesn't matter now except from a historical perspective. Forget the shoulda/woulda/coulda and deal with the present!
Because they decided something else would sell more magazines. Their audience is not conservative at all, so something written by either Bush would not be a plus. I often disagreed with my Dad in some things even though we agreed on most things so why should GWB be any different? Why should we care what an ex-President of either party thinks anyhow? Times change, the current President has information they did not have, and uses it to make his decisions. These guys had thier chances and made thier own marks. I'm not sure about Bush Sr, but Clinton/Gore just likes the attention from their friends in the press.
Agreed! I have a 92 Nissan 240 with 168K miles that passed fine for years. I always did PM on it myself. It's been sitting for 2 yrs now waiting on my 16 yr old..time to teach her how to keep it going. It is pretty easy to work on, unlike my new Maxima which would be h*ll. I can't even FIND the spark plugs!
Airline Pilots are limited by the FAA to like 100 hours a month and 8 hours flying time per day w/o a 12 hour off time. Senior Captains often can ick long trips where they get the 8 hours in on 1 flight. Jr Pilots have to make multiple takeoffs and landings which at busy airports and with weather can be very stressful. Delays due to weather don't count towards the 12hr max duty day, so there can be some LONG days. Right now, airlines are really getting some concessions (S$$$) out of pilots, who not only have to worry about terrorists but thier own CEOS stabbing them! Senior Captains with 15-20 yrs experience who fly the "heavies" like 747s get a nice 6 figure income, the guys and gals flying for Southwest make about 60K. Seniority is the key, as well as getting trained on lots of different aircraft in order to move up. Often a captain of a small plane will get trained on something else and move up, but he is back to being co-pilot or flight engineer and maybe even a pay cut until s/he is certified on the new equipment. It's not an easy job, you have life and death over a lot of people and have to deal with a lot of Gov't red tape as well as other things. These guys earn the checks!
It's all relative. In their economy they might be thought of as overpaid by most of the population. Most folks I talk to think most computer people are overpaid (since it's such an easy job!)